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

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.

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

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

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

Adventures suck when you're having them.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

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

We're only immortal for a limited time.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

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

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury

Your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.

Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

It astonished me in the early Nineties to suddenly have musicians admit that they had been inspired and influenced by us. That meant a lot at that time. But of course, being human, the... disrespect isn't even strong enough a word, is it? The opprobrium was painful. Being popular and hated is not satisfying.

Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.

I try not to repeat myself in fills in all the Rush songs unless it is something simple or something I feel is my own characteristic thing.

I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.

Rudimental snare work is something I've always loved.

If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and all that.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

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

I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.

I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

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.

When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.

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.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.