I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.

Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].

There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.