"The reason that I'm so into the version on this record is that when you do something as great as 'Dreams,' a song like that, it's hard to f-k with that. People don't accept it," Hagar tells Ultimate Classic Rock. "People have tried it again and again and again and the fans get pissy when you f-k with a classic, usually. You know, like Robert Plant, who I love, when he goes out and does the Zeppelin tunes and he messes with them, you know, the Plant fans love it, [but] the hardcore Zep fans are pissy. [Laughs] They're like, 'We want to hear it the way we grew up with it and the way we loved it.'"

"I think what I've done with that song, it's a better song this way," adds Hagar. "The lyric has more meaning, you get it and it touches your heart closer and better. The other one is [such] a physical and emotional performance that the lyrics don't mean almost anything - you can say anything you want. But when I stripped it down, I finally sing it now, like the way I wrote those lyrics, I know what I'm talking about now. I think the fans, it touches them - people cry and sh-t when I sing this acoustically. So this song works."