Music is a dialogue.

We're very needy people, you know.

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we’re really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

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

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

Some things are impossible.

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

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

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

Van Halen is a work in progress.