And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

While I was in Montrose, the publishing checks went into the band's coffers. This was our management's decision; we were just financing ourselves on the road.

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.