I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.

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.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

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