I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

When people don't get enough information, they make it up.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

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.

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.

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.