Michael Anthony
I've always loved playing Zeppelin - they were one of my favorite bands growing up.
My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.
Oh, I just love playing music.
I played trumpet in school at an early age.
You can be a supergroup without having good songs.
There's nothing like sweating it up in a small club, with your fans right in your face.
Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.
I've always been a natural singer on stage and in the studio - never had a vocal lesson in my life.
Being a bass player in these big-time rock bands is hard work.
It was never so much the heavy metal thunder that got me. I was into players who played with taste and did these walking bass parts. If you can play like that, it really opens up the music. You can't just pound away. After a while it's like, 'So what? What else you got?'
Jack Bruce really showed me that you could go anywhere with a bass part, and as long as you stayed in time, as long as you held down the groove, the door was wide open.
I'm the ultimate rock 'n' roll sideman. But that doesn't mean a 'sideman' isn't vital.
Chickenfoot is phenomenal. I can't believe the music we're making.
I'm the kind of guy who has your back. When you want to go off and solo for ten minutes, I keep that groove going. It's an important job.
The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not recognize, realize that each of us is born perfect, exactly as the universe, God intended us to be. We are all perfect. The universe is perfect. Stop struggling against yourself. Accept that you are perfect. When you do, your highest self will shine through.Collection: Struggle
Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.Collection: Dream