Quotes from David Lee Roth

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

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.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

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.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

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.'

Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

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.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.

I don't feel tardy.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

It's not rocket surgery!