Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.
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 only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'
Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.
When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.
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.
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.
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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.
I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.
Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.
People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.
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.
