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" 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. "
Better
Sad
Kind
" 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. "
Best
Trying
Great
" 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. "
Said
Me
Everything
" Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. "
Start
Year
You
" I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later. "
Around
Later
Think
" 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. "
Negative
Talk
Got
" If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become. "
Go
Become
High
" 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. "
Own
My Own
Career
" 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. "
Run
Singing
Stop
" 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. "
Solo
Side
Right
" I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being. "
Song
Lyrics
Later
" I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that. "
Thinking
Looked
Want
" 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. "
Man
Life
Blues
" I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa. "
Kids
Grandpa
Like
" 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. "
Some
Heart
Like
" I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything. "
You
Fighting
Rise
" I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff. "
Solo
Started
Stuff
" It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life. "
Everything
Up
My Life
" 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. "
Say
Guitar
Lived
" I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night. "
Night
Time
Day
" I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise. "
Full
He
Never
" 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. "
Lying
Never
Saying
" 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. "
Music
Listen
Writing
" I would like to enlighten people. "
Would
Enlighten
People
" 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. "
Trying
Say
Feet
" Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway. "
You
She
Love
" 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. "
Fly
Baby
Wife
" The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. "
Heart
Passionate
Singing
" To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do. "
You
Got
Great
" 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. "
Baby
Take Care
Last
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