When people don't get enough information, they make it up.

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.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.

Something most people don't know about me is that I never grew up.

I don't think I'm one of those guys who won't pick up a racket for three years...I love hitting tennis balls.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.

Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.