Quotes from Michael Anthony

I am in a great place with Chickenfoot.

I had a great time playing on '1984.' I felt like I was growing as a player and background singer.

Like music, cooking and more specifically, barbecuing is one of my greatest passions and my sauce is a celebration of these simple pleasures in life. I am thrilled to have my original BBQ sauces featured on Hard Rock's menu, as both embody the true meaning of rock 'n' roll flavor.

It was never so much the heavy metal thunder that got me. I was into players who played with taste and did these walking bass parts. If you can play like that, it really opens up the music. You can't just pound away. After a while it's like, 'So what? What else you got?'

For some reason, my voice doesn't age. I can still hit those high harmonies just like I did back in the day.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place. And that's to have fun.

You know, we're in this business to have fun and entertain.

The best part about Chickenfoot is that nobody needs the money. We've got nothing we need to prove to anybody. We wanted this to be a fun band and when we get in the studio it's just so loose, relaxed, and open.

I don't hold any kind of grudges for anything, and you never know what will happen at anytime.

It wasn't until the fourth or fifth Van Halen record that people would go, 'Wow! You're singing backgrounds on those records. That's not David Lee Roth.' And I go, 'Hell, no! That's not David Lee Roth.'

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

Lead singers, they're their own breed.

I always said to my wife, 'That's for sissies. Girls get facials.' The first time I tried it I said, 'Oh man, what the hell have I been missing all these years.' Let me tell you, I go in there for about an hour and a half, and the girl does my facial and also massages my neck and my arms.

It's an honor to be brought into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame and I'm going to show up if I'm invited, you know?!

You can only go with the excesses to a certain point; it wasn't always the Jack Daniels bottle. We weren't just a bunch of sloppy musicians on stage drinking; we would critique every show.

Chad Smith is a member of Chickenfoot, and that's that.

We're having so much fun with the Chickenfoot stuff.

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

I'll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you've got to have that mentality and personality. I'd rather be the bass guy.

So much of the time people focus on the awesome power of Led Zeppelin, the whole 'Hammer of the Gods' thing, but John Paul Jones, probably because he was a session player, he put a lot of thought into his playing. He didn't just lumber through.

I've always loved playing Zeppelin - they were one of my favorite bands growing up.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

Well, everybody used to joke that I saved the first dollar that I ever made in Van Halen. I probably did somewhere.