I don’t always feel like a million dollars, but I try not to let anybody know. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
We’re basically a rock band – guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we’ve got a lot of melody. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
No one knows this, but when I would play the clubs back in ’65, ’66, they used to call me ‘Screaming Chicken,’ ’cause I would go out and scream, fall on the ground, beat myself, smash stuff, jump through the ceiling, roll on the floor, and act like I was having epileptic fits. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
My parents were opera singers. I didn’t want to play opera because I wasn’t good enough. I didn’t want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I’m so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don’t like every song I write. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
We’re a band’s band. We have real songs, real players, real problems. Real ups, real downs. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
I feel like such an idiot… you know, that our band didn’t break up just so we can re-form and become more and more popular. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
We may not be proud of every song we’ve ever done – or been forced to do – but I believe we’ve done more than meets the eye. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
Whenever we tell the truth, nobody believes us. We lie, and people take it as etched-in-stone fact. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
