I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

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

Nature displays beauty in its pure state.

Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

If I was in Congress, I would not vote to raise the debt ceiling.