Latest Sammy Hagar Quotes from Interviews

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• When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

  Sammy Hagar

  Artist, Musical, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• You just went up and started playing, the audience got into it, and it was just a great high experience. That's what I kind of invented with "Mas Tequila" in Cabo.

  Sammy Hagar

  Cabo, Kind, Tequila

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

  Sammy Hagar

  Choices, Fans, Records

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I don't want to try to force anything, because I'm really happy with Chickenfoot; my new record with them is phenomenal.

  Sammy Hagar

  Trying, Records, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

  Sammy Hagar

  Writing, Biographies, Happened

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• We always sold 4 or 5 million records no matter what we did.

  Sammy Hagar

  Records, Matter, No Matter What

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Darkness, Fans

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Dark, Men

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Cobain, Saved

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I wish I would have known Kurt Cobain. I would have been the first guy there to get him help, doing anything I could have. I just felt like the people around him kind of let him down.

  Sammy Hagar

  People, Guy, Wish

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I feel it's such a tragic thing [Kurt Cobain's suicide]. Here is a guy, a young guy, that had everything in his hands. He could have had a great life. He had a wife, he had a child, he had a fantastic career. He was important to a generation. And for him to do that - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong.

  Sammy Hagar

  Suicide, Children, Careers

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.

  Sammy Hagar

  Suicide, Generations, Cobain

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I'm a co-writer, publisher of that song ["Right Now" ], so for it to get accepted, we had to sign off on it. I signed off in a second. "You bet that anyone can use this. I don't care. You can use it for anything." If it is to inspire people in the positive sense.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, People, Inspire

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Bullshit, President

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• There are a lot of people going around where an alien took over their body, and their soul will actually leave and be, like, in a sleep or in a near-death situation.

  Sammy Hagar

  Sleep, People, Soul

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

  Sammy Hagar

  Reading, Book, Information

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.

  Sammy Hagar

  Dream, Men, Clicks

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• "Love Walks In," it was the same thing. That song is about aliens, by the way.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Way, Aliens

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I was going through troubles with my marriage, and I was just trying to focus and center myself. I was already rich and famous. I've got to figure out where I want to go and just get this thing aimed. I wrote this song ["Right Now"] and I kept singing it every day .

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Focus, Singing

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• You could be in the gutter and fall in love with someone, and you feel great. That's my honest opinion. I've witnessed both sides of that fence and being in love is where it's at.

  Sammy Hagar

  Falling In Love, Being In Love, Love Is

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.

  Sammy Hagar

  Philosophy, Reading, Book

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• 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.

  Sammy Hagar

  Beautiful, Song, Writing

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I always liked a good love song and I dig being in love.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Good Love, Being In Love

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

• I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.

  Sammy Hagar

  Guy, Affair, Love Affair

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.