If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

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.