David Lee Roth

“You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just screaming.”

“I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.”

“The reason the critics all like Elvis Costello is because they all look like Elvis Costello.”

“Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.”

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

“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.”

“Look, all I'm asking you to do is behave like you've been to a rock show before.”

“I'm a rock star. I'm not a politician. I'm not a diplomat. I'm a rock star.”

“Van Halen is a rollercoaster ride. It's a big, loud, fast, noisy, thing.”

“It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you look playing the game.”

“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”

“We seek to stay youthful, this is the entire message of our music.”

“The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.”

“One of the great things about Van Halen was, we were never a message band. We were a party band.”

“I'm just a storyteller, and the story I'm telling is my own.”

“I'm a showman. I'm a ham. I'm a showboat.”