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.

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

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

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

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.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.