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.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

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 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.

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.

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

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.