Perception Life Quotes by Rick Allen

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just…

— Rick Allen

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead…

— Rick Allen

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

— Rick Allen

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to…

— Rick Allen

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

— Rick Allen

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost…

— Rick Allen

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

— Rick Allen

'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.

— Rick Allen

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in…

— Rick Allen

I think at that time I obviously wasn't aware of what I really needed. But conversely, my wanting to prove something to everyone was…

— Rick Allen

And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have…

— Rick Allen

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

— Rick Allen

America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land…

— Rick Allen

I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free…

— Rick Allen

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really…

— Rick Allen