- Geddy Lee: [During the end credits] I think we've been successful in destroying these people's film. I will remind them that I said 'you will regret it'. I said 'don't be surprised when you discovered how boring we really are.'.
- Jack Black: Rush is just one of those bands that has a deep reservoir of rocket sauce. A lot of bands - they've only got so much in the bottle. They use it up sometimes in one song. These guys were the real deal. Their bottle was so big and so filled to the brim, they were shaking it literally for decades. And still there was sauce coming out.
- 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.
- Geddy Lee: Regardless of what you want to say about Kiss, musically or otherwise, there was no harder-working band than Kiss. And there was no band more determined to put on a spectacular show and give people their money's worth than Kiss. That was a great thing to see as an opening act. We were so impressionable, and we were so green... they were very good to us. Those guys liked to have a good time!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alex Lifeson: As far as the band was concerned as things went on, it seemed less and less of a possibility that we would get back together, and it looked like the band was - basically it was four years - that the band was done.
- Geddy Lee: Oh, I thought it was... I thought it was over. Alex and I would talk about it once in a while, but there was no point. I don't want to play in Rush without those other two guys. You know there's no replacing anybody in this band. It's just not possible. It is the band - the three of us, you know. Even though he's the new guy, he's just as important!
- Geddy Lee: Synthesizers and technology became a way of sparking your creativity. I liked it because my need to write melodies is more satisfied writing on a keyboard. As a songwriter, you're always looking for an angle to give you something fresh.
- Alex Lifeson: I loved the idea of the keyboards when we first started. I think as that part of our sound developed, there were times where we just got on the wrong track.
- Geddy Lee: Alex and I had some real disagreements about how profound the keyboards should be. But Power Windows is a really important record, because it was the final and essential blending of keyboards and guitar to me, for Rush.
- Alex Lifeson: With Power Windows, I found it really, really difficult to work around the way the keyboards were developing. Why am I looking for a different place? I shouldn't be looking for a different place. What's going on with these keyboards? You know, they're not even real. It's not even a real instrument!
- Geddy Lee: There was a time when we first started getting recognized, that I got a little touchy about it. And I remember I started thinking about this thing, about fame and how you deal with it. That was kind of an epiphany... and I said to myself, "I'm gonna go where I want to go, and if somebody comes up to me and is nice and wants an autograph, I've got time for them. It's no big deal."
- Restaurant patron: [Recording video on phone] It's Geddy, right?
- Geddy Lee: That's right.
- Alex Lifeson: [grinning] Oh my God, that's Geddy?