I really think one of the greatest allies you can have is the imagination of your audience.

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.

Oh I'd be more than happy to hold, I'll just spend the time working on that brain tumor.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity’s captive.

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.