The UK’s The Guardian recently conducted an interview with VAN HALEN frontman David Lee Roth. Excerpts from the interview are below:

“After Roth left Van Halen, he embarked on a solo career that started brightly before fading away, but he found another lease of life, even before he first reunited with Van Halen for a tour in 2007. "I'm a state-licensed EMT [emergency medical technician] in New York." It seems staggeringly unlikely, but an internet search reveals it to be true. "I probably have over 200 911 calls on my ticket in the last six years alone. I live a very different life away from music."

Even so, he has chosen once again to hitch himself to the Van Halen wagon. Is it possible he and Eddie Van Halen – for all the very public acrimony between them – need each other to create anything resembling their best work? For the first time, Roth pauses – there are 30 seconds before he speaks. Then, finally: "Clearly. Very astute. Clearly." Apart, they're footnotes; together, they're a novel. "We went to school together. Literally. We took theory and orchestration together. We both have almost identical backgrounds in how we learnt. We learnt at the back of the hand from eastern-European teachers. Unfriendly eastern-European teachers." And for a long time, they shared the same aims: "I always thought of it as part of a group. I never thought in terms of Rod Stewart, I thought in terms of THE ROLLING STONES or the SEX PISTOLS. I think Edward thought in the same vein."

Read the entire interview here.

Van Halen's new album A Different Kind Of Truth, will be released in North America by Interscope Records on February 7th. Audio samples from the entire album can be found at this location (click view in iTunes).

The Deluxe Edition of A Different Kind Of Truth will contain a bonus DVD which will feature the following: Bonus DVD disc containing four brand new acoustic performance videos titled The Downtown Sessions. Tracks include: 'Panama', 'You And Your Blues', 'You Really Got Me' and 'Beautiful Girls'.

A Different Kind Of Truth was produced by John Shanks (BON JOVI), Ross Hagarth (DEVILDRIVER) and the band. The album includes the following tracklisting:

'Tattoo'

'She's The Woman'

'You And Your Blues'

'China Town'

'Blood And Fire'

'Bullethead'

'As Is'

'Honeybabysweetiedoll'

'The Trouble With Never'

'Outta Space'

'Stay Frosty'

'Big River'

'Beats Workin''

Van Halen's video for 'Tattoo' can be viewed below:

Check out BraveWords.com's review of the album at this location.