The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.

Whether I'm on for a day or whether I'm on for a year, at the end of the day, I sing for my dinner.

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

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and 10,000 leaves. I will draw you a tree with four branches and three leaves, and I'll spend the rest of the week drawing inside of each leaf. In terms of the grand gesture, I reserve that maximum turbo blast energy for what I do as an artist, and I sing and dance for dinner.

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.

The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!