Geddy Lee

“I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.”

“So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.”

“Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.”

“Music is all about wanting to be better at it.”

“I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.”

“Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.”

“If I start mining for opinions on hundreds of websites that have fan forums, I'll be totally distorted in my view of myself. I'll lose myself in all that.”

“With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.”

“Well, I've been lucky. I've never gotten a voice polyp. I've never gotten nodes. But I do get sick, usually every tour, and to varying degrees. Sometimes it's a sinusitis.”

“But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.”

“Sometimes it's nice to have a song that can be taken more then one way, so it can be interpreted differently.”

“Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.”

“I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.”

“Playing live is such a total visceral experience, and really, as a musician, you're trained from the beginning to be a live performer.”

“My studio is designed for atmosphere. I have a really cozy, comfortable room that has a great, huge glass door that views my backyard.”

“I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.”

“There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.”

“I love to write. It's my first love.”

“I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.”

“I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.”