Chad Kroeger

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again. ”

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck. ”

I'll never be the best guitar player. ”

I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute. ”

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening. ”

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me. ”

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does. ”

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that. ”

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business. ”

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people. ”