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

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

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

...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.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

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.

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.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

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

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Justice has a right to protest against injustice.

Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor.

A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.

I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!