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

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

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.'"

In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

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.