I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

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

Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.

I've always been very self-motivated.