I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

You have this resonant box that sounds cool when you smack it, so why not go for it?

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

Somehow, Rush can still sell out arenas. If I was sitting in row one, I would take my chair, unbolt it from the ground and run away.

You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can't really fuel your creative existence any longer because it's not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.

It's hard to get enough of something that almost works.

When we make the unfamiliar familiar, make the unknown known, make the uncomfortable comfortable, and believe the unbelievable, we can then expect the unexpected.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

I always want to read the script before I totally commit.

I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.

If we're going to live an ethical life, it's not enough just to follow the thou-shalt-nots. … If we have enough, we have to share some of that with people who have so little.