You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.

It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

I was talking to Jackson Browne on the phone. He said, 'I'm the slowest writer in the world.' I said, 'No, no, no. You're the second slowest. It seems the older you get the slower they come. I wonder if it is like that for everybody?' He said, 'It ain't with Don Henley. He seems to be writing more than ever.'"

You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.