If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

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

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

Bass is for people who can't play guitar

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

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.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.