Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

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.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

When you are in love, reality becomes illusion and illusion become reality.

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

We're not exposed to a lot of guys.

I think that is a great, great thing, to create your own identity and foster a true family spirit.

Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.

If you look at the public opinion polls even, support for all the issues, people who self-identify as feminists are as least as many as those who self-identify as Republicans.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.