On Van Halen, I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But Id say that at the time of Fair Warning, I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most peoples minds Im just a gunslinger. – Eddie Van Halen

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald