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.

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

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

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.

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.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

There's nothing I did not hear, there's nothing I did not see, but I never despair.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.

If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.

Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old.