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

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.

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.

Worry is common, it's not good for us, it accomplishes little, and it dishonors the God who cares for us. Worry may be our most enduring form of unbelief.

The day had come when he needed Cassy, and Cassy alone. No one, and nothing else, would satisfy him.

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.

Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."