"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."

"Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players."

"Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra."

"My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question."

"The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about."

"My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk she sang. She was a tower of strength."

"When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy."

"You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family."