To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.

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

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.

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

...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.

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

More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'