Rick Nielsen
Everything works if you let itCollection: Ifs
If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.Collection: Fans
I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Player
I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.Collection: Opportunity
I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.Collection: Player
I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.Collection: Song
Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.Collection: Garden
I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.Collection: Crowds
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.Collection: Growing Up
The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.Collection: Parent
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.Collection: Opportunity
When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.Collection: Attitude
Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.Collection: Thinking
Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.Collection: Giving
I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.Collection: Men