Quotes from Sammy Hagar

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do 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.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

I've always been into writing love songs.

"Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.

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.

I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

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.

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.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

I've never done a box set, and Eddie's full of it if he says otherwise.

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.

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.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

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.

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.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

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."