People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

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.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Be simple

We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!

Why do you chase the wind?

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

Planning involves considering how other people may use something.

When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.