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I want to keep my sanity.
I want to go to my grave a happy guy.
Lead singers, they're their own breed.
The chemistry is everything in a band.
I am in a great place with Chickenfoot.
I played trumpet in school at an early age.
I loved Van Halen; I loved everything we did.
I'm always the guy that says never say never.
A Tennessee Squire is an elite group of people.
I want to go out, play music and have a good time.
Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.
We're having so much fun with the Chickenfoot stuff.
Chad Smith is a member of Chickenfoot, and that's that.
I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.
I didn't want to be the bass player everyone forgot about.
You know, we're in this business to have fun and entertain.
Being a bass player in these big-time rock bands is hard work.
I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.
I drink Jack Daniel's. I drink tequila. But you do it in moderation.
Joe Satriani is a methodical, and structured, kind of guy - thank God for that.
I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.
I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.
I've always loved playing Zeppelin - they were one of my favorite bands growing up.
I'm the ultimate rock 'n' roll sideman. But that doesn't mean a 'sideman' isn't vital.
There's nothing like sweating it up in a small club, with your fans right in your face.
I didn't have any money to buy a car, so when I got my license I did not have a car at first.
I don't hold any kind of grudges for anything, and you never know what will happen at anytime.
I had a great time playing on '1984.' I felt like I was growing as a player and background singer.
I've always been a natural singer on stage and in the studio - never had a vocal lesson in my life.
It always sucks to have to cancel a show because of illness, but unfortunately it sometimes happens.
As far as people saying, 'Do you miss Van Halen?' or any of that kind of stuff, I've totally moved on.
Everyone used to call me 'Mr. Switzerland.' I'm not the kind of guy who smack talks anybody or whatever.
For some reason, my voice doesn't age. I can still hit those high harmonies just like I did back in the day.
The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.
Well, everybody used to joke that I saved the first dollar that I ever made in Van Halen. I probably did somewhere.
It's an honor to be brought into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and I'm going to show up if I'm invited, you know?!
You ever notice how when you get a new tattoo, it's like a magnet? People are drawn to it, everybody wants to touch it?
My best exercise is going on stage and playing, but I stay active. I don't just sit around on my butt all day and do nothing.
People tend to forget you. I didn't want people to go, 'That is that guy that used to play in Van Halen. What's his name again?'
I'll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you've got to have that mentality and personality. I'd rather be the bass guy.
I'm the kind of guy who has your back. When you want to go off and solo for ten minutes, I keep that groove going. It's an important job.
Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.
It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.
My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.
Black with flames, that's how I always envisioned a roadster. That was the classic hot rod. I used to draw pictures of roadsters with flames on them in school.
Probably for drums, a guy I really enjoyed watching is Simon Phillips. I've seen him play with The Who and with Pete Townshend on his own - a really great drummer.
Jack Bruce really showed me that you could go anywhere with a bass part, and as long as you stayed in time, as long as you held down the groove, the door was wide open.
You can only go with the excesses to a certain point; it wasn't always the Jack Daniels bottle. We weren't just a bunch of sloppy musicians on stage drinking; we would critique every show.
The casinos are always packed and a little more intimate... We have a lot of fun playing those and we plan to bring all the craziness that we do. And I gotta tell you, they pay really well.
In my business, you could be making money one day, and the next day you could be serving up burgers at McDonald's. So if you want to be able to stay on top of your game, you've got to keep with it.