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.'"

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer

I got tired of playing other people's songs.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

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