"The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I’m gone." ― Eddie Van Halen Topic(s): Family More From Eddie Van Halen "When I’m home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It’s a feeling few people experience, and that’s usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can’t force myself. I don’t sit down and say I’ve got to practice." "Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me." "I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I’ll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn’t wait for the day I’d be able to make music with my son. I don’t know what more I could ask for." More In Family "In politics, there are no friends."― Marian Wright Edelman "I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now."― Patty Duke "The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."― Thomas Paine