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

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

I feel it's such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain's suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong.

I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.

I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.