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

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

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

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

"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."

"We're very needy people, you know."

"When you leave the planet, you leave music behind."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Music is a dialogue."

"Van Halen is a work in progress."

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

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