I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

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

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

I felt like a loser. I was unhappy as a child most of the time. We were terribly poor and I hated my size.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Your problems are not there to defeat you, they are there to increase you.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago [Israel] and if they do not listen to our recommendations, then the Palestinian nation and other nations will eventually do this for them.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure