Quotes About Music

I was the biggest Public Enemy fan - I think it's what inspired the aggression of N.W.A. We just took a different route lyrically.

I sing. I used to think singing is going to be the route, and I still sing to this day. I still try to write lyrics.

My music has given me a confidence I wouldn't have had if I had gone a different route.

'Routine' was written on piano, and you can hear that. But then you listen to 'Happy Returns,' and you can tell it's definitely been written on guitar, with that singer-songwriter-y strumming quality.

I do Skid Row every night.

People don't want to hear the same song 12 times in a row on an album.

I won an ASCAP award two years in a row - that was sick.

I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

The first record I bought may have been Del Shannon's 'Runaway.'

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

I don't think anyone does Rush songs except for Rush.

Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.

My fav band is Rush.

I get the same rush being on stage DJing that I did on the court.

I had so much out there, the world was going crazy about 'Comes Alive!' I didn't need to go and rush into something else. You're only as good as your last record, so don't put one out for a while.

We played with Rush somewhere way early in our career.

Rush is one of the common denominators in our band as far as a band that everybody loves and grew up with and was a big influence.

We've been involved in a lot of albums that were really rushed at the end.

I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.

Although I don't understand Russian, I like the sound.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

I never try and sound like Sabbath.