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 think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

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

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

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

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.