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

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.

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

It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.

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.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.