Chad Kroeger

Chad Kroeger: We're excited to be performing in Vegas and be able to reward lucky fans to play at this rockin' Poker event! We can't wait to feel the energy and excitement of playing for our Vegas fans.

Chad Kroeger: I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute. I'll never be the best guitar player. I can definitely make more of a mark with my song writing.

Chad Kroeger: If you finish a song and it's not stuck in your head, then how will it stick in someone else's head when they've only heard it once or twice?

Chad Kroeger: We were a little scared of using piano. We just didn't think it was very rock and roll.

Chad Kroeger: [The video] has that whole John Cougar Mellencamp vibe to it — we did some shooting in the old high school gym, and we saw the principal that always used to suspend me, ... We made up. But I broke into that school 11 times. In the song I say, 'Criminal record says I broke in twice/ I must have done it half a dozen times.' It was actually 11. Now, it's sort of funny. The principal laughs about it and it's no big deal. But when I was in court, he didn't think it was so funny.

Chad Kroeger (on his motivation for writing the song, Dimebag Darrell was killed while performing onstage with Damageplan in Columbus, Ohio): I was very upset, and for two months, if I saw [Dimebag's] picture somewhere I would get angry.

Chad Kroeger: I wrote this song, Leader of Men, when I was high on magic mushrooms.

Chad Kroeger: We thought about when we were selling 5,000 copies of our record a week last year, when all we wanted to do was start selling 150,000 records a week, right. And now that we're doing it, we don't even think about it, all we ever think about is time off! I think we'd almost give up one week's sales for one week off. Give up 100,000 records just to go to Hawaii.