Sammy Hagar

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

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

“In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.”

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

“I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.”

“I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.”

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

“Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.”

“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 wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.”

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

“Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.”

“We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.”

“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.”

“It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.”

“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 would like to enlighten people.”

“The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.”

“I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.”

“The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.”