"I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland. And when we moved to America, it was just the typical thing except I was really good at it so was my brother."

"I have selective hearing."

"I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart."

"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music."

"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."