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.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

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

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

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.