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 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.

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.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

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

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

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.