I Boil The Strings So

I Was Just A Punk Kid, Trying To Get A Sound Out Of A Guitar That I Couldn't Get Off The Rack, So I Built One Myself ... I Wanted A Gibson Type Of Sound But With A Strat Vibrato .. I Went To Town Painting It And I Put Three Pickups Back In, But They Don't Work - Only The Rear One Works

David Lee Roth Had The Idea That If You Covered A Successful Song, You Were Half Way Home. C'mon - Van Halen Doing 'dancing In The Streets'? It Was Stupid. I Started Feeling Like I Would Rather Bomb Playing My Own Songs Than Be Successful Playing Someone Else's Music.

There's A Plaque On Our Wall That Says We've Sold Over 65 Million Albums, And I Don't Feel I've Accomplished Anything. I Feel Like I'm Just Getting Started.

I Can't Read Music. Instead, I'd Do Stuff Inside The Piano, Do Harmonics And All Kinds Of Crazy Things. They Used To Put Me In These Annual Piano Contests Down At Long Beach City College, And Two Years In A Row, I Won First Prize - Out Of Like 5,000 Kids!

I'm The One In The Band That Said I'm Not Going On Tour Unless We Do A Record.