A biography for Alex Van Halenhasn’t been written yet.
“When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.”
“It's unfortunate nine years were in between - you can't take that time back; you can't undo it.”
“Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.”
“We're very needy people, you know.”
“At our age, you don't want to stop.”
“Van Halen is a work in progress.”
“You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.”
“Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.”
“We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together.”
“Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.”
“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.”
“Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.”
“Music is a dialogue.”
“There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.”
“The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.”
“Nobody sets out to make a bad record.”
“You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.”
“Some things are impossible.”
“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.”