I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Michael Anthony is the Diplomat of Rock N Roll. He is the regular guy.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

My favorite Extreme records were the last two. I can't listen to the first one.

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.