At our age, you don't want to stop.
Because if you stop, you might not get back up.
But to be welcomed by the fans after all these years, that's the incredible part.
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
It's nice seeing everybody again - not that I am implying that I have a close personal relationship with every one of our fans.
It's o-nly when we get in the studio that we have creative differences. And I think that works to the benefit of the band.
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.
It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.
Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
Music is a dialogue.
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
On a personal level, we all get along fine.
Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.
Some things are impossible.
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
There were days when I didn't know if I was going to have a brother a year from then.
There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Van Halen is a work in progress.
We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
We're very needy people, you know.
Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
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.
When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.
You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.
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