Quotes from Richard Patrick

I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.

I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.

I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.

We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.

There's never the same road. It's always, every time it's always a different road.

I care about this crazy little planet and I would love to make a difference.

Love is my family. I would die for them.

You just have to follow your own heart. I listen to so many different kinds of music and at the end of the day you want to make a record that you're super proud of.

My idols have always stuck to their guns and said what they want to do.

I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"

I just want to touch people's ears. I want to touch people's lives. I want to give them something they can release to towards their anger.

The fans have made my dreams come true. For that, I'm super grateful.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.