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.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

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

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

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

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.