Rick Allen Quotes

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• Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give…
• Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during…
• I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
• Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that…
• Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.
• I have never been one for the over-the-top.
• Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like…
• I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country.
• I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
• But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot…
• I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the…
• But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
• 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 some…
• 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 been…
• 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 try…
• But it's funny that now I'm in such a happy situation, I look more objectively at my own past and see what others have seen…
• But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def…
• 'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one.
• I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to…
• 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 beneficial…

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