Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

The best time is during the struggle. The top of the mountain is usually small, freezing and lonesome. To this day I'm continually reinvesting myself in something new. I'm not afraid to start as a beginner in anything.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

What's missing is the testosterone. What's missing is the fury. What's missing is the passionate convicted commitment. And I got a lot of mine from my religious background. So y'all best stop imagining the way Dr. Zorba looked, or some defenseless Hasidic Jew with a little yarmulke on his head, 'cause that ain't here for you.

I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.