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

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.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

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.

I was kind of always attracted to red. I used to wear red socks a lot for some crazy reason.

I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.

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.