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

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.

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.

Strong faith doesn’t give up

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?

The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.