I am so excited to present this record to my fans and to the world. I had so much fun in the studio writing these songs. Thank you to everyone who supports me and my music.
Thank you to my husband, Deryck Whibley. You make me happy. You make me smile and you love me! Thanks for all of your support during the making of this record. I'm really happy we got a chance to work together with you producing and mixing on this record. We did great!
Thank you to my awesome manager, Terry McBride, at Nettwerk Management. You're one of the few people I know in this business who is 100% sincere, honest and genuine. And thanks for putting up with me, being so open and willing to work with me on my creative idea. And thanks for the great wine!
Thank you to Tina Kennedy, who has been through so much with me on a personal and professional level. Thank you for all that you have done for me. We are a great team. And you rock!
Thank you to Matt and Annie. I love having you around. Thank you for being real and loving me.
To Michelle, you're the best little sister in the world. And to Mom and Dad, none of this would have happened without you. I love you all.
To Butch Walker, thank you first of all for being such a great friend. We did so well together on the last reccord... and we did it again on this one... it's only "The Best Damn Thing."
Evan Taubenfeld, you're one of my best friends. I'm so stoked we have songs together on this record. I love you and thank you for always being there for me.
Rob Cavallo, you're the sh*t and I'm glad I got you drunk. Damn, you can eat! Yum... Velvet Margarita! It was really great to work with you. You're awesome.
Dr. Luke, thanks for letting me pepper spray you, get you tazered, spit on you and get you sh*tfaced. We had a good time and we wrote some great songs together... "I will drink as much Limoncello as I can."
To Kara Dioguardi, it was a pleasure working with you. Thanks for helping out on Runaway.
Devin, thanks for being my guy, my guitar player and for all the good times. I love you.
Thanks to Chris Lord-Alge, you nailed the mixes and you nailed the bottles of wine. To Tom Lord-Alge, you've always been the shit. And thanks to Serban Ghenea. It was great working with you on this record. You all did a fantastic job.
To the Nettwerk team: Shauna Gold for everything you've done for me throughout the years, Dan Fraser, Brent Muhle, Chris Fisher, Dan Cleland, Christina Stumpf, Mavree David, John Rummen, Maria Alonte McCoy, Libby White and Jennifer Larkin.
Thank you to David Ellison... dude, you're fucking funny! To Dipple, thanks for being such a good friend and all your long hours documenting this record. Pamela Murphy, Robert Vetica, Mark Lidell, Jessica Paster, Leah Smith - thanks for everything.
To Clive Davis, you're a legend in this buuisness and I'm honored to work with you. To Charles Goldstuck, I'm appreciative of all that you do for me. And to Richard Sanders, "Mr. Executive" you rock and you're actually really cool... ha ha ha ha! Also at Sony BMG, thank you to: Samantha Lecca, Soraya Akhavi, Caron Veazey, Richard Palmese, Shane Carter and Bob Hoch.
To my fans, I realize that this is all possible because of you. Thank you for your continued support. I hope you play this in your car, sing it in the shower, dance to it with your friends and rock out to it at my concert.
I am so proud of this and couldn't have done it without any of you.
Thank you!
Love always and forever,
Avril
xoxo
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~ Avril In Wonderland ~