Sammy Hagar

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

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 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.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

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.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

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.

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

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.

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.

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

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.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

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.

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.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.