A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

A song should stand on its own and on what a singer does with it. It shouldn't need a lot of extra help to be good.

The mind cannot live in nature, only against nature, only as its counterpart.

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I would say Hugh Jackman.

Art always demands of us something new.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

I'm forever BECOMING. I'll never be complete, because completion is death.

Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.