Quotes by Alex Halen

• We're very needy people, you know.
• There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.
• You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.
• You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.
• Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.
• When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
• We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.
• Van Halen is a work in progress.
• There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
• 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.
• Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
• 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.
• The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
• Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.
• Music is a dialogue.
• At our age, you don't want to stop.
• 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.
• It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.