Chad Kroeger Quotes
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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.
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It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.
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When I’m Chad from Nickelback, then I have to wear one hat and I have to wear various others when I’m Chad Kroeger who is co-owner of 604 Records or someone who’s working on an independent project. At that point I want to know where the record is getting licensed, as well as absolutely every aspect of how we’re going to deliver a song to the public and how we’ll all get paid for doing so.
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I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.
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There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.
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You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are
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Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.
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I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.
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I'll never be the best guitar player.
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It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
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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.
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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.
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Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.
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When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
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Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.
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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.
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I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.
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I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
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I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.
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Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.
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I would call myself more spiritual than religious.
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The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.
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You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet!
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