236 Quotes by Neil Peart

It’s always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.

Lotus-land as it appears in ‘Free Will’ is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a ‘land of milk and honey.’ It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

All four winds together can’t bring the world to me Shadows cast a play of light, so much I want to see Chase the sun around the world, I want to look at life-In the Available Light. I’ll go with the wind, I’ll stand in the light.

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it’s really just a question of your honesty.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It’s very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won’t. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Sometimes you’re up against everybody in the whole world – even your friends and family are saying, “You need a single.” You feel sometimes incredibly alone.

The tarot card ‘The Tower’ seemed a chilling reflection of the events of September 11, 2001.