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I would like to enlighten people.
I've always been kind of a speed demon.
I've always been into writing love songs.
I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.
I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later
I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.
Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.
I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.
The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.
I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.
"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.
So many things can get you high, I'm gonna try them all just once before I die.
When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.
I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.
When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.
I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!
It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.
If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.
I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.
Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.
If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.
I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.
I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.
If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.
It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.
When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."
I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.
I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."
And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.
I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.