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"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."
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"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."

"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."

"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."

"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."

"I think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far."

"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
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"We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle."

"It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen."

"Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years."

"Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie."

"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."

"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."
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