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

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.

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

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.