Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
It’s always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half.
Don’t try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
The tarot card ‘The Tower’ seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.
Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It’s very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.
While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it’s an evolving state of mind.
Throw off those chains of reason and your prison disappears.
I don’t like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.
I want to be an improviser, and I’ve worked very hard at that. It’s an art. You don’t just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
If I do something weird, play it twice and it’s a new part.
Stamina is the force that drives the drumming; it’s not really a sprint.
One likes to believe in the freedom of music.
Lotus-land as it appears in ‘Free Will’ is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a ‘land of milk and honey.’ It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...
The ones we wish could hear us have heard it all before.