It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

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

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

I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.

And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.

I've always been into writing love songs.