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

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

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.

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

Americans cannot be the policemen of the world. We cannot protect countries all over the world.

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

The quickest way to correct the other fellow's attitude is to correct your own.

all deaths are one's own.

Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws.