People say they want shorter, but really want something that rivets them. They've got endless time for great.

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.

It's a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it's a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work

Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.

Forget about acquiring new people. If you service your audience they will get you new fans.

If you're not a successful artist it's your fault.

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.

You can't fight hearts and minds with money.

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

Values come to you by what you hear.

Dreamers are full of inventive minds, willing to find new possibilities and new ways to grow in life.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

I have hope, because I believe in miracles.

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.