My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
My first album done what it had to do. It introduced me.
My first album is a lot of my personal experiences. I wanted people to relate to what I've been through.
With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention.
I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.
My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.