"There's definitely a strong relationship between us and our audience," Lifeson said. "And I think it's partly because we've never been the cool thing. We've never been the trendy thing. We've just been hard-working and done what we believed in. We wrote the music we wanted to write. We didn't try to write pop hits. � Maybe there's a cultish quality about who we are."

That said, Lifeson admits that recent projects have heightened Rush's profile. "It changed a bit in the last four, five years � since [the 2009 movie] I Love You, Man and the Beyond the Lighted Stage documentary. We have a new audience. We're getting more press than we used to. The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing. It's one thing after another.