Sammy Hagar Quotes

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

"Rock Candy" was my first record. I had never been in a studio, so I was in shock and I had no idea if it was great or if it stunk. I was just putting in my heart and soul, and closing my eyes and keeping my fingers crossed. I gave it everything.

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

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.

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.

That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

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'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.

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

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

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

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

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

I feel it's such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain's suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.

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

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

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 really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.

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

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

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.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

I was really wanting to be a rock star. I was saying, "I am going to have a fancy car, I got to have fancy clothes, and I have got to play the whole role." Obviously, I meant business.

I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later

I've always been into writing love songs.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

I've always been kind of a speed demon.

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.

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

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.