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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 public is especially hard sometimes."

"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."

"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."

"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."

"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
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"If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record."

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

"When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill."

"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."

"I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have."

"Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone."

"I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff."

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