Quotes from Sammy Hagar

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.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

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.

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

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." Hunter S. Thompson

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.

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.

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.

You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

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.

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.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.