I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

Some things are impossible.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

I despise shopping and department stores.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

I don't wanna just be remembered for the funniest guy in my neighborhood.

I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.

When I grew up, you'd see shorts before movies. I know it happened a lot more before I started going to the cinema.

Um, I don't know, really [about my future.]

People don't buy what you do; they buy what you stand for.