CHICKENFOOT / ex-VAN HALEN frontman SAMMY HAGAR is featured in a new interview with PopEater.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: How the hell did you survive Van Halen?

Hagar: "It was wonderful for nine years. I'm a romantic and optimist, so I thought, oh it's just a little thing my boy's going through and everything will be good, but it never changed. But we had nine years of the greatest fun ever, so that carries a long way."

Q: Any chance of a reunion?

Hagar: "I'm sure that it's inevitable, but not right now. Right now it's probably on a scale of one to hundred, minus seven. Of course no one's going to like somebody putting their stuff in the street, but I didn't make up anything. It's all true, and it's exactly what happened and that story has never been told. I'm walking down the street and fans are coming up into me going, "Hey man, when are you and Eddie going to get back together? What's the problem over there?" And I gotta tell them that it's just not possible right now."

Q: He's clean now, isn't he?

Hagar: "He was clean in 1995 supposedly, but he wasn't. Seeing pictures of him now he certainly looks clean. He looks better, so I'll hand him that, but until I sit in a room with him. I can tell in a second. No apologies are necessary, but if he said, 'Hey dude I love you man, let's get together and do it right,' I'd be there in a second. But I'm not going to make that call because between you and me, I'm extremely busy and extremely happy and probably if I was to instigate it, it'd be like, 'Oh now we've got him, he wants something,' and if they were in that frame of mind it would bite me in the butt. When they're in the right frame of mind, whenever they want to do it, if I could fit it into my life, it would be a top priority."

Go to this location for the complete interview.