My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.

I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.