When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

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

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.

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.

My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words.

I go through life like a Karate Kid.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.