David Lee Roth

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.