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Neil kind of did, though. He was more into the Randian shit early on, but he definitely admitted to getting far more iffy about it.

Rolling Stone asked Peart, “Do [Ayn Rand's] words still speak to you?” He responded:

Oh, no. That was 40 years ago. But it was important to me at the time in a transition of finding myself and having faith that what I believed was worthwhile. I had come up about that moral attitude about music, and then in my late teens I moved to England to seek fame and fortune and all that, and I was kind of stunned by the cynicism and the factory-like atmosphere of the music world over there and it shook me. I’m thinking, “Am I wrong? Am I stupid and naïve? This is the way that everybody does everything and, had I better get with the program?”