I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.

We have nine hungry Rottweilers on the farm.

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

I deep sea fish a lot.

I ain't heard anyone play like I do in my band and I am very happy about that.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

We have to provide more visibility, more certainty to the investors and reduce the cost of failure.

I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense.

Charm never made a rooster.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that they produce a settled assurance about God.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.