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

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

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

If you're writing songs by yourself, who's going to tell you if it's good or not? But if you're writing songs with somebody else, you get that immediate feedback.