Sammy Hagar
I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.Collection: Night
I didn't think I'd be around 30 years laterCollection: Thinking
"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.Collection: Heart
After I had my dream, I got into numerology. Like my buddy's name is Bill, and I would say, "B is a two, and each I is a nine, and the L's are fours. And that's eight." I would figure out everybody's numerological single-digit number.Collection: Dream
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.Collection: Writing
I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.Collection: Trying
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.Collection: Decision
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.Collection: Home
Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.Collection: Reading
I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Suicide
I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.Collection: Song
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.Collection: People
"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.Collection: Song
The downloads, the licensing, commercials, radio - it's made me more money than any song I've ever written, and it only went to No. 26. It wasn't a big hit at all. But it's a career song ["I Can't Drive 55"].Collection: Song
I've had my fill of "One Way To Rock" or "I Can't Drive 55." Those are guy songs to me, and I'm cool with that. But when you write a great love song and you start seeing that 50 percent of your audience is beautiful women, that's much more rewarding, than having a bunch of guys out there.Collection: Beautiful
I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.Collection: Song
I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."Collection: Thinking
I've always been into writing love songs.Collection: Song
If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.Collection: Making Money
I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Stars
We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.Collection: Records
Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.Collection: Rolling
I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .Collection: Song
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.Collection: Song
I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.Collection: Song
Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.Collection: Dream
The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Suicide
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.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Thinking
I'd love to be abducted. I'd sit on my deck at home waiting all night long to be abducted. But that's never happened that I know of.Collection: Home
Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.Collection: Mom
When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.Collection: Artist
It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.Collection: Song