"When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove."

"There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release."

"On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger."

"It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different."

"What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it."

"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."

"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."

"To walk the path of enlightenment means the true master is an eternal student."