I Was Trying To Take The Band

I Mean It's Funny, Playing Music, How Of Course You Want It To Do Well, You Want Them To Like It, But It's Not Competitive Like An Election, It's The Olympics, It's Not A Formula 1 Race. The Billboard Charts Are Just To Show You What People Like.

Music Kept Me Off The Streets And Out Of Trouble And Gave Me Something That Was Mine That No One Could Take Away From Me.

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

It's Always A Catch-22 Situation. They Hate You If You're The Same, And They Hate You If You're Different.

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.