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"They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcohol. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you grow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar." - Circus, June 1984

"I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else."

"I know the world doesn't revolve around Dave, but I like to think so". - DLR, May 1984

"I am not this way the way I am, 'coz I am in a band. I am in a band, 'coz I am this way"

"Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth".

"I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50"

"I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!"

"I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage."

"I simply have to be creative all the time. I have to sit down with a group of people and create new things. I can be the quarterback. I can be the cheerleader. I have to travel, to meet people. All different kinds of people. People are my enthusiasm and the source of my inspirations."

"Seriously, I don't have any rivals. You can't have me and a second-rate impersonation of me and tell me that here's my rival. No contest! There is such a thing as being original. Without it, no matter how good the impersonation, you're nothing."

"My aim is for this band to be the most colorful outfit on the map. I want the women who come to our gigs to remain the prettiest you will ever find at a rock'n'roll show. And I want our attitudes to be the highest.. Drama! Chaos! AND organization! It's a hell of a soundtrack to live by ... and that's exactly what we're going for!"

"See, I'm a total failure in my personal life, so I feel great when the audience loves a record, babe "

"I've got a surgically implanted disco beat. My show has to be 130 beats a minute or better.Let's hit it! Open up them pearly gates because I am the California earthquake!"

"The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot"

""I'm gonna stand up for rock and roll tonight, baby... In fact, by the time we hit the stage, I'll be lucky to just stand up!"

"It hasn't got that much to do with ego. The world doesn't revolve around me. But I'm a competitor, not a spectator on this earth."

"What am I going to do, sing a million dollars harder at the US Festival than at the bottom line? Honey, I sing like a million dollars regardless."

"I have tried many different forms of presentation in the past years. I was proud of some and less proud of others... But I did them all superbly!"

"People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them 12 feet. From the audience to the stage!"

"Some of the audiences know my lyrics better than I do" – DLR

"If ever I do get really down in the dumps, though, I just pack a bag and take off for a month in the bush, just get lost in the wilderness somewhere away from all the bulls?!t" - DLR in Kerrang! Feb. 1988

"It's funny---here I am the son of a Jewish doctor, and the Van Halens are sons of a musician, a world traveler. They wound up married with children, and I'm by myself, never happy staying in any one place for too long."

"Most people are surprised that I spend most of my time alone. I lived with a girlfriend for a couple of years, but that's over now. Before that I lived on my own for twelve years. I do that now too and that's what makes me happy"

"I've shaken everybody's hand. I've had a drink with every guy or gal. But I spend most of my off-time by myself. I'm very much of a loner like that.

"Maybe it's all bullshit, but who cares? It's a cool rock'n'roll attitude anyway." - David Lee Roth on his image

Van Halen was one of the most hallelujah, tailgate, backyard, BBQ, arrive four hours early to the gig just for the parking lot bands. And still to this day is. It's an attitude. I think it's a spirit more than anything else is. – Dave 97

"Van Halen likes to keep things simple. All we're doing is giving our daily lives melodies, beats and titles."

"Van Halen's got nothing to hide. What you've walked into is a self-created fantasyland where everything happens four times as quick. Anything you desire you can find here, whatever your vice."

"Old Van Halen, when I was in it-classic Van Halen-makes you wanna drink, dance and screw, right? And the new Van Halen encourages you to drink milk, drive a Nissan and have a relationship".

"That music (Van Halen) is like the biggest Christmas present ever, I want to get in that and drive it around. I'm one of the few people in the world who have more than 5 or 10 songs like that."

"A lot of people think that a VH tour is just one long orgy with a few stops on stage in between.Well, let me tell you - they're right"

"I was the early Van Halen style. I wrote half of every song you heard from Van Halen, sometimes more than that" - MTV interview 1991

"Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade."

"Yes, I was one of the architects of Van Halen. If I build you an airplane, you can damn well bet you could fly it without me"

"The sound of Van Halen was meant to spill out, all over your stereo and ruin the rest of your record collection "

"I was a virgin with a band called Van Halen. I don't ever expect that I'll find that situation again with a different group of guys when you're hiring quite literally right out of the parking lot."

"Music is something Van Halen makes when they run out of nothing to do" -- DLR 1984

"If you're a three-dimensional human being, if you are sassy, if you have the ability to be sexy and laugh at the same time, if you love a slam-dunk approach to music as well as a toast and a tear, if the bittersweet appeals to you, if you'd rather look over your shoulder and see two hot f?%k-me mambo babes doing that to your retinas with alarming frequency, if you want entertainment, celestial bodies ... this is adult music for adults. What Van Halen was designed to be."

"There's no pot of gold for us [Van Halen] at the end of the rainbow, we're just here to ride the rainbow"

"People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and despair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!"

"What are the characteristics of a good rock'n'roller? Rock'n'roll is in you. You either got it or you don't. You can't fake it. It has to be inside you just itching to get out. And when it does, POW! It's like a dam bursting. That's Van Halen."

"We've been together maybe ten years, straight out of high school and stuff. I'd say that in the whole ten years we've been together, we've put in ... oh. A good seven or eight hours of rehearsal."

"There's a little Van Halen in all of us, and we're just trying to bring it out. It's like something bursts inside of you, something that makes you not care what people around you are thinking. It makes you invincible, like if a car hit you, nothing would happen to you. That experience is about the audience, not us. All we do is provide the soundtrack."

"The Beatles,Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones all these people expanded with the times.Van Halen didn't want to do that. Van Halen had turned into Spinal Tap.."

"I always thought that song should be sung by a girl."- Roth about Sammy Hagar singing "Panama"

"There are three rings to marriage: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffering" – Diamond David Lee Roth, Musician (95)

"People think I have this strange concept of women, but they're wrong. I'm a family-oriented kind of guy. I've personally started four or five this year already"

"I don't get all the women that I want...I get all the women that want me!

"I was with a girl not terribly long ago and she said "Mr. Roth, I think you're the oldest person I've ever been with." I said "Honey I was gonna say the same thing to you."

"Love to me is when you can't think, when another person is always on your mind, in a positive way. If you see something you like and think, "My girlfriend should see this", that's it, you're in love."

"I've been going steady with my girlfriend for maybe two, maybe three... days!"

"I won't go down in history, Sylvie, but I _will_ go down on your little sister!" - From `Raw' a few years back, to Sylvie Simmons

"Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people do"

"I don't think that in comparison to some of our other book writers and basketball players that the numbers of girls that I slept with compares even remotely AT ALL! I always figured over quality over quantity. And half of these gals I still keep up with. You know I still travel and I still keep up them, I guess they're not that married."

"My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond that, I'm a pretty standard guy. Give me a gal with a sense of humor, acidic wit, who's read a few books and has a body like a Swedish speed skater, and I'm quite content."

"If you're asking me what I look for in a girlfriend, to me that means a woman I'm going to wake up next to, somebody I'm going to have dinner with more often than not; that means a soul mate, a pal, someone to cover my back as well as make out with. I'm hyper demanding about that. Those special gals are few and far between."

"I found me a gal who is a Princeton graduate, front of the class, OK, comes from academic family, and plays roller hockey full contact, 2,3 times a week, and I mean full contact. She's taller than I am, and stronger than me, discovered that first time we went kayaking. Dry, critical, sarcastic, elitist, distant... hey baby want to get married?"

"Many people think that the end has come when one marries and gets kids - to me it would be a wonderful new beginning."