A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

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.

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.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

I love having music just to chill to and also to rev me up a bit.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?

Minds differ still more than faces.

Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.