Alex Van Halen Quotes

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

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.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

Some things are impossible.

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

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.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.