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."

I've always been kind of a speed demon.

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

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.