RUSH frontman Geddy Lee spoke with EW.com recently about a number of topics. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

EW: Let’s talk about your new greatest hits collection, Retrospective 3. What did you argue about when putting together the track list?

Geddy Lee: "We don’t really have a lot of disagreements. We’re ridiculously sensible, the three of us. We like to joke that we’re one of the few working democracies in the world today. We all sent our opinions around. It was only two or three emails and everyone said, "Sure, that’s good, no problem, thumbs up." And that was that. It was very painless. Unlike when we have to choose the songs for our tour. That’s a long and very difficult process. We play for about three hours, and we have to balance what our fans want to hear and what we want to play, the new songs. We have, like, a hundred million albums. Trying to draw three hours out of all those records…"

EW: So how did you settle on the 14 songs on the new collection?

GL: "We usually send each other a bunch of emails. Management will make suggestions, and we’ll try to ignore as many of their suggestions as possible. [Laughs] For me it’s all about trying to do something interesting for our fans. Our fans probably have all those songs in one form or another, so if we’re going to put something out there we’d like to try to make it a little different. We tried to include some unusual versions of some of those songs. If I had my druthers it would be a boxed set of three discs. But that’s not very practical. I would like to spend some time at some point doing some creative boxed sets. I think that would be fun."

EW: So there’s a lot of unreleased Rush material sitting in the vaults, then?

GL: "There isn’t. None. There’s lots of unreleased live material. Hours. Months. But there’s no [studio] material that we’ve recorded and not released. It’s like this: if we’re working on a song where we don’t love it enough to put it on the record, we throw it away. If we’re disappointed in them, we trash them."

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