Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Van Halen is a work in progress.
Everybody has a high point and a lot goes into that: timing, situation, general consciousness.
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
Some things are impossible.
It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats.