Trey Anastasio Quotes

I'm like a rocket - I go a hundred miles per hour.

When that glass broke and 'Stone Cold' was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.

I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

You can't take your foot off the pedal; you've got to get pucks to the next level.

I say it time and time again: You have to do things with force and speed and pace.

When you have the smaller guards - whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under - they're the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game.

I kind of love opening, because it's easier and kind of just more fun to get up and play fast and furious and have a good time.

I've said this before, and I'll say this again: NXT is like a rock concert, roller coaster ride.

I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.

I love pace. I love it.

I don't think I've ever felt overwhelmed on an ice rink.

I think 'Chris' is way more about that, about living desire as a force of chaos and about reveling in that chaos.

Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?

I only know one speed.

Aang hits the Avatar-state and he has this unlimited power. He enters into a flow state, you know, he's in the zone. That's how it feels for me sometimes when I'm fighting.

One of the ways to use your depth is to play with speed.

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.

People say a two-man sled is like driving a racecar, and a four-man is like driving a truck. And it feels that way.

We feel this passion that we have for music and this relentless need to pursue it and follow it and go wherever it takes. It's just something that's ingrained into us - it's ingrained in us so deeply that we say it's 'in our bones.'

I was going nine times a week. You get to a point where you don't really know who you are. You're running on high octane, and you'll take all comers in every arena because there was no police. Every arena, you'd take on everybody that would come in the ring.

When you get to an F1 car and after one lap you see the pace is there, it is special emotions and I miss it so much.

If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.

You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you've driven, and then you're like, 'Oh, I was doing something for 20 years that I didn't realize I hadn't experienced the real version of.'

I just try to go out there and be who I am and compete and bring home as many trophies as I can. That's what being a race car driver is all about and that's why I do what I do.