Quotes from Alex Van Halen

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

Nobody sets out to make a bad record.

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.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Music is a dialogue.

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

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

On a personal level, we all get along fine.

We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.

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

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.

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

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.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Some things are impossible.

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

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

We're very needy people, you know.

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

Van Halen is a work in progress.