What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

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

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

You should look straight at a film

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.