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

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.

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.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

It is harder to cut our gains than to cut our losses.

The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.

Keep active - do something physical each day. Could be as simple as taking the dog out for a walk (if you've got a dog!), but could be going for a swim, or going to the gym every day.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.