Eddie Van Halen Quotes

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

If you just want to be a star, go away.

I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.

I think everybody wants to be a rock star.

I think it would be really awesome to be a rock star.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

You can't buy being a rock star.

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

I wanted girls to scream at me. I wanted to be a rock star.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

I don't know if I want to be a big star though.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted was to be a star. I didn't want to be a singer. I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.

I'd love to be a rockstar.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I always wanted to be a star.

Now I realize that from '72 through to about '76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn't have been more rock star.

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

I've never really aspired to the spotlight; I just wanted to do music, which is kind of weird because music comes with that spotlight.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Am I a rock star? Yeah, I guess.

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.