Rick Nielsen Quotations

Like all of our records, good or bad, it's a diverse kind of record. It's not a heavy hit-you-over-the-head rock record. It's a dozen good songs.

I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me.

We hope (the new boundaries) will be for a long time.

We do Springville first because the Mapleton Junior High will be finished in fall 2006.

They are being built for a capacity of 900. They'll open in '06, but they won't have sixth graders until '07.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.

Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.

I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.

I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.

Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away

If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

Everything works if you let it