What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

Once I had defined myself as a compositional drummer, I thought, "Well, I want to be an improvisational drummer."

I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.

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.

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

I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

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