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

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.

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

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

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.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.