Neil Peart Quotes

I was never a guy who liked to be in the centre of attention.

I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.

I'm not the type of guy who is going to be out in front of a microphone for attention.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I'm very, very low-key in general.

My parents are people who like to stay to themselves. They're quiet. They raised me not to be boastful about anything we do.

I'm not a person who wants to be the centre of attention or anything like that.

I'm not a showy kind of player.

I actually don't like anything flashy. I don't even like going out.

I'm not necessarily a 'rah rah' guy. I'm not the guy speaking out with everybody watching.

For those of you familiar with me, you know I'm the last person to chase publicity or attention.

From when I was a kid, I was always very quiet within myself, I was never attention-hungry.

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever.

I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

I was the most subtle person in the world.

I'm just not the type who wants to draw attention to himself.

I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

I've never been very flashy or high-profile.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

There's not a lot of flash about me.

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.