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

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.

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

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

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.

I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.