The real test of a musician is live performance. It's one thing to spend a long time learning how to play well in the studio, but to do it in front of people is what keeps me coming back to touring.

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

The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Sourav Ganguly is the new Steve Waugh of mind games.

It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

Our works do not generate righteousness, rather our righteousness in Christ generates works.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.