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

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

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.

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

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.

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

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.