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

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

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 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.

To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

The demands of Jesus are difficult just because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time he asks us to regard these as something usual, ordinary.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.