I got tired of playing other people's songs.

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

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.

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

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 got tired of playing other people's songs.

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