Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.
When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.
Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.
You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.
I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.
I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.
I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
I've always been kind of a speed demon.
I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
When I woke up from that dream, brother, I was like, "Okay, I've got to know what that was, what happened." That was not an average dream. I've had some dreams in my days, but not like that. It was way too vivid. Looking back, the reason that dream makes more sense today than it did then is, we are in a digital world. Back then, it was an analog world. Everything was digital in the dream.
I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.
Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.
Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.
You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
