“All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.”
- Sammy Hagar
“Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.”
“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
“Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.”
“I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.”
“I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.”
“I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.”
“I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.”
“I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.”
“I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.”
“I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.”
“I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.”
“I would like to enlighten people.”
“I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.”