On a personal level, we all get along fine.

The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

We're very needy people, you know.

Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

Some things are impossible.

At our age, you don't want to stop.

It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.

When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.

You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.

Music is a dialogue.

We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.

Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

I'm not a genius; I'm a worker.

It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn't your gender - it's you.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Life's too short not to try different things and to see what works for you and your body.

When I'm debating others, whether it's Eleanor Clift or Bob Beckel, you're still in a fierce debate mode, but you're also on best behavior.

It's a professional military. You sign up and agree to allow your countrymen to use your life as they see fit for the next four years. And I think we all should have a greater role in ensuring that we use those lives wisely.

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

You can be anything you want to be if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith for whatever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.

The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

Nothing can affect my voice, it's so bad.