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

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

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.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

You are in a state of mixing, and you just live with it. There is not one musician who is completely happy with a mix.

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.