Michael Anthony

I want to go to my grave a happy guy.

— Michael Anthony

I don't want any drama.

— Michael Anthony

I want to keep my sanity.

— Michael Anthony

“Awareness Increases Success”

— Michael Anthony

I hate to exercise.

— Michael Anthony

Oh, I just love playing music.

— Michael Anthony

Why would I have quit Van Halen? It never happened.

— Michael Anthony

God, what can I say about Chickenfoot that hasn't already been said?

— Michael Anthony

I loved Van Halen; I loved everything we did.

— Michael Anthony

Chad Smith is a member of Chickenfoot, and that's that.

— Michael Anthony

You can be a supergroup without having good songs.

— Michael Anthony

I played trumpet in school at an early age.

— Michael Anthony

You know, we're in this business to have fun and entertain.

— Michael Anthony

Chickenfoot, my relationship with those guys is great.

— Michael Anthony

I'll sing backgrounds, but a lead singer, you know, you've got to have that mentality and personality. I'd rather be the bass…

— Michael Anthony

It always sucks to have to cancel a show because of illness, but unfortunately it sometimes happens.

— Michael Anthony

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

— Michael Anthony

The band changes one guy, sometimes the whole damn thing changes - look what happened when I joined Van Halen.

— Michael Anthony

When we were in the studio working stuff out, and even when we were on stage, the music was a priority.

— Michael Anthony

It's weird because it almost takes something like Chickenfoot to make me realize why I was playing music in the first place.…

— Michael Anthony

People tend to forget you. I didn't want people to go, 'That is that guy that used to play in Van Halen.…

— Michael Anthony

There's nothing like sweating it up in a small club, with your fans right in your face.

— Michael Anthony

In my business, you could be making money one day, and the next day you could be serving up burgers at McDonald's.…

— Michael Anthony

It wasn't until the fourth or fifth Van Halen record that people would go, 'Wow! You're singing backgrounds on those records. That's…

— Michael Anthony

It was never so much the heavy metal thunder that got me. I was into players who played with taste and did…

— Michael Anthony

You can only go with the excesses to a certain point; it wasn't always the Jack Daniels bottle. We weren't just a…

— Michael Anthony

Jack Bruce really showed me that you could go anywhere with a bass part, and as long as you stayed in time,…

— Michael Anthony

So much of the time people focus on the awesome power of Led Zeppelin, the whole 'Hammer of the Gods' thing, but…

— Michael Anthony

“If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater than the…

— Michael Anthony

The casinos are always packed and a little more intimate... We have a lot of fun playing those and we plan to…

— Michael Anthony

“I grabbed the closest box of books and heaved it onto my bed. It contained all the books I had read in…

— Michael Anthony

The original sin is not that we are inherently flawed, born sinners, or imperfect; the original sin is that we do not…

— Michael Anthony

“Gunner shook his head; he wasn't in the mood. He stared down at his bottle as he spoke. "Yeah, and what if…

— Michael Anthony

“A successful suicide doesn't just happen, although, of course, there are exceptions. Someone happens to be walking across a bridge when the…

— Michael Anthony

“I couldn't see killing myself if I had a book that was only half-read: Fountainhead, Catcher in the Rye, Hitchhiker's Guide to…

— Michael Anthony

“Tonight the thoughts were about how to end things, with a heavy emphasis on the how. The process of suicide isn't exactly…

— Michael Anthony

Lead singers, they're their own breed.

— Michael Anthony

I always had to have music in my cars.

— Michael Anthony

I'm trying to grow old gracefully. I've got to at least grow old.

— Michael Anthony

I am in a great place with Chickenfoot.

— Michael Anthony