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People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

Let’s play with the career, if we can’t find anything else to do.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there’s no lawsuits, there’s no agent, and there’s most frequently no time limits. There’s a longevity that’s kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I’m genuinely delighted to do it.

I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It’s aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

For the last 30 years, I’ve been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that’s involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry – and charge you $ 8.50.

I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.

I’m a natural behind the camera. My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what’s going on here. When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I’m genuinely glad and relieved to be there.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business – I love the business.

I change as the times change. I’m a reflection of what’s around me without trying at all.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you’re down below 14th Street in New York City, that’s bohemian; that’s left-wing.

The only thing I’m allergic to is criticism.

It doesn’t matter the kind of music, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don’t care if it’s outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

The travels before and after the tour are what add up to what you’re doing. You are really called into service – and it’s the service industry man, it’s blue collar man, I’m sweating by the second song. It’s construction work from that second song on.

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He’s just famous for his sound.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

I know that people think I’m a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn’t be able to do the aerials I do onstage.

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself – ask any teenager.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald’s. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing – a hamburger and fries to go – but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

The world’s a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

On parties it’s not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

Maybe I’m like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant – you don’t really want to know what’s going on behind the door. I’m a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don’t need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?

Whether I’m on for a day or whether I’m on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

Women are great. When they dig you, there’s nothing they won’t do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find – unless you’ve got a good dog.

You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, ’cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.

A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

The Breakfast of Champions isn’t cereal, it’s the competition!

I’m a family oriented guy; I’ve personally started four or five this year.

They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It’s sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.

I’m gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you fall in supplication of the demon gods.

Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello.

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That’s the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn’t have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you’re not only allowed that, but you’re encouraged.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I’ll keep providing the parade.

The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success.

It’s not who wants to sleep with you; It’s who wants to sleep with you again.

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

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