“I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.”

— David Lee Roth

Michael Saunders (March 18, 1994) "The reemergence of David Lee Roth", The Boston Globe, Section: Arts & Film, p. 75.

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Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen 1954

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