Neil Peart: Self
Quotes
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Neil Peart : We all loved the music of that time. We were young enough to, and we didn't have any protective nature of what Rush was that we could never be allowed to be influenced by new wave music, or could never use an African rhythm. There was no such thing as "that doesn't suit Rush." Those words have never been uttered.
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Neil Peart : Travel has always been known as a soothing balm, and even motion, from the time we're little babies, you know, we want to be rocked. And if the baby's crying, you can take it for a drive in the car and it calms it down. That's the way I described it to myself at that time - I was so stirred up into my little "baby soul" it would only be soothed by motion.
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Neil Peart : I traveled out of the darkest place a human being can come from, and it was landscapes, highways and wildlife that revitalized me. It was the timeless landscapes. It gives your tiny existence a new perspective when you're among things that are millions of years old.
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Neil Peart : Basically we're talking about a journey that stretched 55,000 miles, starting from Quebec and going up to the Arctic and around Alaska, and onto Mexico, across all of Mexico, from Baja across the whole Mexican mainland down to Belize. I'd go to small towns and the back roads, generally stopping for the night in hotels along the way, and I don't think in that whole 55,000 miles, I don't know if I was ever recognized once. In a little town, at a gas station, or a motel or a diner. Because I'm just a guy sitting there with a hat on, reading a book.
