I've always had confidence. Before I was famous that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous it just got me into more trouble.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous which was a bit of a disaster.

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.'

Dates with actors finally just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became the more I narrowed down my choices.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14 it's being washed up right after.

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling when I'm not famous any more.

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible.

When I'm home the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up my parents both worked so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special even after a tough day.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life the oddest feeling of all was after my mother Lucille died. My father had already died but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely yet I did.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer easier and more fun.

I used to be a classic workaholic and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family friends being part of a community and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

The name Van Halen the family legacy is going to go on long after I'm gone.

We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

My wife is so analytical with raising kids and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad it means they took after her side of the family.