Without a doubt, Eddie Van Halen is the greatest guitar player who has ever lived.

Face your fear Accept your war it is what it is.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

If you have passion for what you want to do and that's what you want to do, you've just got to bust your balls and go for it if you want to play music.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

There are people that I love I am all of them

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can He give us an answer when we are still well supplied with all sorts of answers of our own?

I think Steve Jobs is my idol.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

How do you know that I'm out of control? Maybe I'm just awkward.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.