"Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you."

"I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids."

"I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting."

"I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult."

"The best time to make friends is before you need them."

"But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence."

"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."

"When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game."