Van Halen Quotes
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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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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'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."
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I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
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It dont matter WHAT your doing, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doing it...
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
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I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.
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So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.
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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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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.
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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'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.
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Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do...
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I've always been into writing love songs.
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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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I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.
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I loved that song "Don't Tell Me", but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
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I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.
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I grew up on radio, not TV.
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This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.
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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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I've had my fill of "One Way To Rock" or "I Can't Drive 55." Those are guy songs to me, and I'm cool with that. But when you write a great love song and you start seeing that 50 percent of your audience is beautiful women, that's much more rewarding, than having a bunch of guys out there.
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There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.
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I've always been kind of a speed demon.