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.

I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

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've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.