If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.