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

It’s all about sound. It’s that simple.

It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: ‘When are you going to do a solo record?’ Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to ‘Baluchitherium,’ meaning it...

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

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.

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

We make music for a living. Like I’ve always said, if you like what you’re doing, you’re halfway there; if someone else likes it, that’s even better. If they don’t like it, at least you...

It’s always about the music, never about anything else.

It’s all about sound. It’s that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it’s digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear...

It’s funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: ‘So, what does it take to make it?’ Well, first explain to me what you mean by ‘making it’: Do you want to be a rock...

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with? Probably the one that I haven’t hung most with...

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

I’ll be making music ’til the day I die. I’ve done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.