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'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.

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.

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

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

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

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.