I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Hard to find and even harder to listen to

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

One day is all it takes to lose someone forever.

Life is not only merriment, It is desire and determination.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The only shots you can be sure of are those you've had already.

Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.