I've Always Been Into Writing Love Songs.

That Song ["don't Tell Me"] Didn't Take Us Anywhere, And I Know Why Now. It Wasn't What Van Halen Fans Wanted. It Showed The Darkness Of Van Halen, And Basically The End Of The Band.

When We Were On The Road, I Found Out That My Greatest Hits Album Went Gold. They Freaked Out. Things Really Came To A Head When We Started Arguing About A Van Halen Greatest Hits Package.

I've Had My Fill Of "one Way To Rock" Or "i Can't Drive 55." Those Are Guy Songs To Me, And I'm Cool With That. But When You Write A Great Love Song And You Start Seeing That 50 Percent Of Your Audience Is Beautiful Women, That's Much More Rewarding, Than Having A Bunch Of Guys Out There.

This Is Pop Music. You've Got A Candidate For President Of The United States Using It, That's Hitting The Biggest Audience You're Ever Going To Hit In Your Entire Friggin' Life. And You Don't Want That? Bullshit. That's What You Want. It's Not Even For Success Or Fortune, It's Because That's The Power Of The Song.

After I Had My Dream, I Got Into Numerology. Like My Buddy's Name Is Bill, And I Would Say, "b Is A Two, And Each I Is A Nine, And The L's Are Fours. And That's Eight." I Would Figure Out Everybody's Numerological Single-digit Number.