When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"

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

I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.

Girls dropping out of school because of early and unwanted pregnancies. The reason? They did not realize the value they possess in their body.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

I'm not singing anymore; that is why I am so pleased to be writing. My daughter said, "You just found a different way of using your voice."

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.