Best 10 quotes of Rick Nielsen on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

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

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

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

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

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