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.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.

The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.

I've always been into writing love songs.