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.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

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.

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

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