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" They hated Sammy Hagar for 12 years and they hate him to this day. "

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" The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones. "

" In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate. "

" There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road. "

" Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie. "

" Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years. "

" If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat. "

" Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone. "

" I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years. "

" We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle. "

" When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me. "

" There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you. "

" When people don't get enough information, they make it up. "

" We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits. "

" When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill. "

" If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record. "

" It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen. "

" My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one. "

" Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy. "

" I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have. "

" You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype. "

" I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. "

" I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from. "

" I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff. "

" You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio. "

" I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement. "