I Started Doing All Kinds Of Weird

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.

I Was So Used To Doing Old Blues Licks With The First Three Fingers. When I Started Using My Pinky And Finding More Spread Things, That's When I Started Getting My Own Style.

There Are Really Three Parts To The Creative Process. First There Is Inspiration, Then There Is The Execution, And Finally There Is The Release.

I Played 'eruption' Two Times For The Record, And We Kept The One That Seemed To Flow ... There's A Mistake At The Top End Of It Whenever I Hear It, I Always Think, Man I Could've Played It Better ... But I Like The Way It Sounds. I'd Never Heard A Guitar Sound Like That Before.

When I Was Growing Up And Listening To Bands Like The Dave Clark Five, The Groove Was What Initially Got Me Going. I Really Like That Funky, Heavy Groove.