236 Quotes by Neil Peart

When I’m riding my motorcycle, I’m glad to be alive. When I stop riding my motorcycle, I’m glad to be alive.

Anytime I have an idea, I’ll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write an album, I don’t have to dream it all out of thin air. I don’t have to be creative on the spur of the moment, or spontaneously artistic. I just take advantage of whenever creativity strikes.

No his mind is not for rent, to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent, he knows changes aren’t permanent. But change is.

I don’t like lyrics that are just thrown together, that were obviously written as you went along, or the song was already written and the guy made up the lyrics in five minutes.

We’re only immortal for a limited time.

While I remained ambitious, punctual, and hedonistic at home, I had learned to better appreciate the timeless beauties and blessings of nature, to value sincerity as a cardinal virtue and reject the Western reverence for affectation and hypocrisy, and to make my frantic life pause for sunrises, sunsets, and full moons.

Live for yourself there’s no one else more worth living for.

I saw that it was plain wrong to evaluate people according to race, for it was clear that culture was the real divider among peoples.

You can’t get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.