Berg Quotes

I took his (Alex Van Damme) name, in fact from his father because his father sent me for the first time in Hong Kong to be a picture model. I`m not enough tall to be a catwalk model, plus too big for that, and we became very good friends and I took his name as an honor. Because my name, by the way, is too complicated, it`s Van Veren Berg, so in America it sounds like Van Varen Berg" (said with American accent). So Van Damme it`s punchy, short, and clear." - (on adopting the name `Van Damme`)

Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda`s intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

We all had a common ground on the point, ... the idea that you don`t always get it right the first time, especially in terms of love... I know I`d just come back from my honeymoon with (CMA Song of the Year winner) Matraca (Berg), and Marcus and I got to talking about how life doesn`t always turn out the way you think it`s going to. So, when you finally do get it right, you look back on those experiences that were painful and you realize it was part of your journey.

(Producing the two songs himself, Berg, Gilby, Abbott, Barker and Suchy recorded most of the tracks at Chemical Sound and did some stuff at Orange.) I was very impressed with how everyone played and how seriously everybody took it, ... Everyone behaved the way they behaved when we used to make records back in the day.