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.

Everything works if you let it

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

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

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

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

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

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