Wheels can take you around. Wheels can cut you down. We can go from boom to bust. From dreams to a bowl of dust. We can fall from rockets' red glare,… - Neil Peart

Every audience, I feel like we have to earn them — we have to earn their dedication and their expenditure of time and energy and money to be there every single time, every show. It's an old show-business thing, but I really feel you're only as good as your last show.

They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves -- Witch Hunt (Part III of 'Fear') (1980)

Music is certainly about sharing your enthusiasm. We love our music, and we hope other people will like it too — there's nothing more calculated than that about it.