Maybe I'm late with this, but I was checking out a Van Halen site and came across this interview with Saliva's Josey Scott. This was from November 2004. They gave mad props to Prince...

Here's the relevant excerpt:

"KNAC.COM: Well, I mean, I understand what they're going after, but I think there's more to this Saliva record than they think. It's not Lynyrd Skynyrd. There's much more than just being from the South! You've got-- I hear a lot of Stones, well the "woo-woo's" on Survival of the Sickest. and right at the break there's a reference right there. I know I'm not crazy: you sing, "I'm gonna drive this little red love machine!" That's a gotta be a "hats off" to Prince.


SCOTT: Oh, absolutely! It's certainly a "hats off" to Prince! Man, we are huge, huge, huge fans of Prince! I think Prince is a fuckin' rock and roll icon! And uh. I think that we were definitely tippin' our hats to him. We actually, originally in that breakdown, that part of the song where we have, "I'm a roller, baby, I'm a rider, so ease down and wrap your legs around me!" Originally we had, "So reach down between my legs and ease the seat back!" And we were also tippin' our hats to Van Halen! And Van Halen's lawyers got on the phone and said that they were gonna take 75 percent of the publishing--


KNAC.COM: WHAT? That's outrageous. That's just fucking crazy.


SCOTT: 75 percent. They were just really pissy about it. I - personally I don't think anyone in Van Halen ever heard about it, but their lawyers were just really shitty about it. So we decided to pull it. And Prince's lawyers actually gave us a call, and were just enthralled about it. They were ecstatic! They thought it was really cool and didn't want any money, and they just thought it was really cool that a young band like us was taking our hat off to Prince. And I just thought that was a handled with a lot more class and a lot more respect for a young artist by Prince, than by Van Halen. Or at least their lawyers. Here again, the communication between artist to artist is broken down by bullshit, red tape and money. And that's really sad, you know? That's really sad that we can't live in a world that someone can't pay a compliment to another artist without it being about bullshit."