Rick Nielsen Quotes

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

Everything works if you let it

I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.