Chad Kroeger
Chad Kroeger
Chad Robert Kroegeris a Canadian musician and producer, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian rock band, Nickelback. In addition to his work with Nickelback, Kroeger has been involved with a variety of collaborations, appearing as a guest musician in several songs and has contributed in both production and songwriting. He has co-written several songs for other artists and for films...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth15 November 1974
CityHanna, Canada
CountryCanada
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.
I wrote all these heavy, tuned-down guitar riffs and I asked him if he wanted to play the guitar solo on it, and he was pumped to do it, ... That was the first time I appeared on a record with Dime, and now this. I just wish this wasn't the way it had to happen.
I wrote this song when I was high on magic mushrooms,
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.
There are a lot of references to fornication in that song, ... There is nothing we're afraid to sing about or say in a song, as long as it's kind of clever or wink, wink, tongue-in-cheek. It just helps to paint that picture and tell the story better. If you're going to cover everything and hide behind metaphors, you're not doing a decent job telling the story.
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.
I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute.
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 okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.
I would call myself more spiritual than religious.
It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
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.
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.