Geddy Lee

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.