This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

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

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

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

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now."

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.