Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.
Nobody’s going to get a hot dog at my concert!
You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, ’cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage.
Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald’s. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing – a hamburger and fries to go – but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He’s just famous for his sound.
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.
I change as the times change. I’m a reflection of what’s around me without trying at all.
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.
I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!
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.
The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel’s bottles is the Clash baby!!
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success.
You’ve got to roll with the punches to get to what’s real.
A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
The only thing I’m allergic to is criticism.
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.