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

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.

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.

Some things are impossible.

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

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