 It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it. |
| We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby. |
| Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway. |
| I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images. |
| Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground. |
| I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge. |
| In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps. |
| To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do. |
| I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies. |
| I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa. |
| I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being. |
| I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything. |
| I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. |
