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

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

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.

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.

On parties it's not about who you are. The real reason to which a party revolves is how good you look.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success