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.

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

I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

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

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

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

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.