David Lee Roth Quotes
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Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.
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I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50...
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I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.
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He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
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I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.
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It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success...
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I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
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I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.
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It dont matter WHAT your doing, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doing it...
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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.
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I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.
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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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Being a rock star is being a rock star, I don't need to go into the details. What would you do if you were a rock star?
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My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.
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It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.