I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Sometimes I just want to lick David Lee Roth in the nuts

It is only wishful thinking that makes a sheep seek that a lion feeds on grass just to make it comfortable.

I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

I just saw over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was always because players didn't want to let each other down. Players wanted to lift each other up.

I've gone from a two-pitch guy to a four-pitch guy.

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.