Rick Nielsen quotes:

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

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

Everything works if you let it

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.

Surrender, but don't give yourself away

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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