Quotes By Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

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

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

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

Van Halen is a work in progress.

Some things are impossible.

Music is a dialogue.

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

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

Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

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

At our age, you don't want to stop.

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.

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.

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

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

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.

It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.