They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.
My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
I kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one.
I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.
My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
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.
I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.
People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.
I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.
Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.
You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
