After becoming the target of David Lee Roth’s verbal barbs, Wolfgang Van Halen says he’s no worse for the wear – and, in fact, says he’s “honored” to be victimized by the singer.

“I guess I’m honored he even thinks about me as much as he seems to,” Van Halen says. “I guess you have to take what he says with a grain of salt considering he also said that he wrote ‘Eruption’ and … all the solos that Dad wrote.”

Van Halen’s comments come after Roth posted an online video in which he shaded his former bandmate, saying he constantly complained that Roth didn’t give him enough attention – and ended up retaliating because of it. “I seem to have been born into this Van Halen drama that has come way before me,” Wolfgang Van Halen says. “And I guess now that my dad isn’t here to be a target, I guess he went to the next best thing.”