It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

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.

I've always been very self-motivated.

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.

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

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 say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!