I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

Ted Templeman, the producer, and Donn Landee, the engineer, are the same team that signed Van Halen, when they were called Mammoth. Donn convinced them to change it to the last name of the guitar player and drummer.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

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

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

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.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.