If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes

Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.