I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.
Too many bands record an album and feel, 'Well, this is okay,' but after a time, they grow to not like it.
The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.
I do love the musical form, although it's often disappointing.
I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.
I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.
I'm a failed percussionist, you see.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
I know what it's like to go to a concert, wait to hear your favourite song - and then they don't play it!
Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.
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.
One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.
