Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. |
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. |
When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well. |
I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff. |
I would like to enlighten people. |
I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise. |
All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way. |
The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway. |
If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package. |
If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. |
The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. |
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. |
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've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night. |
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist. |
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band. |
When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package. |
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. |
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. |
Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later. |