"Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade." — David Lee Roth

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.