Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

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.

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.

Stealing is wrong Billy

Well, here we are."Sometimes a statement of the bloody obvious was the only appropriate way forward. As if to give life ceremonious permission to proceed.

I'm not impulsive at all - except about buying clothes. That's my biggest weakness.

We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.

I'm not a 'strong warrior queen' like people think. I spend most of my day cooking and doing things with my sons.

The self-righteous never apologize.

When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.