I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

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.

Nothing is expensive when you promise.

If a child is born and raised in a home that is loving and nurturing, where there is complete truth about who we are, you can’t give a child any greater place from which to fly.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

I think the most important thing to do is to recognize the fundamentally different circumstances of pursuing growth.

Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.