65 Quotes by Alex Lifeson

A lot of '2112' was written in the back seat of a car and in cold dressing rooms while on tour in northern Ontario.

With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

I don't want to be 70 years old jumping around onstage.

I think the whole '2112' album took somewhere around a week to do.

I went to Kalamazoo to get my first Gibsons back in '76.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

The Rush fans are pretty crazy everywhere, but they're particularly wild in South America.

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don't take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that's altogether different.