I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time.

We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

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

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

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.

Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.

I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)

The strength of a patent doesn’t come from its claims, it comes from the invention

I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

Keep in touch without touching

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.