I Took Classical Piano Lessons From The

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 Wanted A Gibson Type Sound, But With A Strat Vibrato ... I Bought A Body From Charvel For $50.00 And A Neck For $80.00 - I Slapped It Together, Put An Old Gibson Paf In It And Painted It Up With The Stripes

I'm Blessed With A Good Pair Of Ears. That's How I Fooled My Piano Teacher. I'd Watch His Fingers And I'd Listen To It, And I Just Kind Of Basically Learned It By Myself.

A Good Producer Brings Out The Best In The Artist He's Working With. You Shouldn't Be Able To Listen To Something And Say, 'so-and-so Produced This Album.

It Comes Back To The Same Old Question People Are Always Asking Me: 'when Are You Going To Do A Solo Record?' Well, If I Did, It Would Probably Be Similar To 'baluchitherium,' Meaning It Would Be Van Halen Music - Which I Write Anyway - But Without Singing.