I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.