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

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.

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

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

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.

A word was more valuable to them when they were not sure of its value. Since they became famous, their word has been more expensive but its value is less.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

He put his finger in and out, and watched me lie there.''Perfect'', I groaned breathlessly, while a tear drop shined on the corner of my right eye.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.

Listen, you bubblehead-up-until-five-minutes-ago.