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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty.

Often in life the pleasure of the journey is only eclipsed by the ecstasy of the destination.

An old man is twice a child.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

I like playing the villain.

You need to enjoy yourself and just get into the routine of keeping fit and enjoying being active. That's always easier once you've made friends in the sport.

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.