It's not who wants to sleep with you; It's who wants to sleep with you again.
You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
The most important part of any rock song is the guitar solo.
Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello
I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me.
I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
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.
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
You want to know if we're animals? When I'm on stage with the volume rippling my body like a glass of water and thousands of people are generating heat in my direction, there's no time for thought. My basement facilities take over completely. Sure it's animal. People might like to talk about art, but look where art is, in the gutter.
Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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.
Rock & roll is not so much a question of electric guitars as it is striped pants.
The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!
I'm a family man. I personally started 3 or 4 families last year.
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance
People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!
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.
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.
