The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

Nothing brings people together more, than mutual hatred.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.