After about eight hours in the studio, you start to not get returns.
At my age, it's really good to be on the radio.
Desperado has been sung by so many people. Everybody knows it so I do it in my show.
Doing The Long Run, we stayed in the studio for weeks at a time. I'd just start getting up in the morning and it was just like school. I didn't want to get up, dreading to go.
Don and I did not have any fun working on The Long Run.
Don could sing any song in The Eagles. If it is bluesy it usually a Don song. If it is light it is usually a Timothy song. If it somewhere in the middle, it is usually a Glenn song.
Don knows I do Desperado in my solo show. It is a landmark song for us. It's our first really good song.
Everybody in our band has a family that is important to them. There are so many things going on away from the Eagles now that we can't miss out on. People live in different parts of the country.
Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
For the albums I always got to play lead on one or two tunes. The bass players always chose me to play lead on their songs.
Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?
Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.
Hey, I'm playing hardball. I'm ready for the worst now. I had it good, but what can the worst be? Money can't help you if you have liver trouble.
How long am I going to be able to go out onstage and play rock 'n' roll and look young and vibrant?
I couldn't understand all these disturbances from the other players in the band because I was subordinating myself.
I don't know if I'm really conscious of being the splendid romantic and then the realist.
I don't like writing alone, I don't trust myself.
I don't see us touring for a while now. We have toured almost everywhere. We may just cool our heels for a little while. These are things that we are going to discuss.
I don't want to start falsely building up people's hopes for an Eagles studio album because I'm really not sure that that is going to happen. It would be nice but there are a lot of things involved.
I felt that for the benefit of the Eagles it was most important that we get a couple of blistering guitarists in there.
I guess the best thing would be to get about 10 more new Eagles songs and then we would have an album. We don't have any plan right now to release one.
I just figured, I'm going to a new company, I didn't want to give them any excuses. I was this far from just buying my own recording truck and saying, screw all all, guys.
I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.
I think enough time has passed that the pressure wouldn't be as great as it once was. I really miss working with Don.
I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.
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.
I think The Long Run is very underrated, but you can also hear that it's slightly tired. Maybe it just makes me tired to listen to it.
I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.
I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.
I've followed my gut feeling from the time I was 22 about everything.
I've got three kids now. My first commitment is to them.
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.
If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
In a band, it's a fake democracy. The roles are not so defined.
It is nice to hear new Eagles music on the radio.
It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.
It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.
Jack and I are completely honest with each other as far as criticism goes. Of course, even our bad suggestions are usually great.
Just because I've given up on it doesn't mean other people should.
My songs grow on people - like warts.
My younger brother hit me in the face with a baseball bat when I was 13. Never catch without a mask.
Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.
Once a track is started and you have a chorus and verse, you don't even have to be in the same place to work on it. You just have to have the time.
One of the reasons life is great now is because I'm the boss.
One thing I find with younger people-some of these guys are playing at being something, they're not really being something. You don't get that gut feeling about them.
Some people, they just don't get a joke.
Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.
That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.
The bass players never gave us any trouble. It was the guitar players.
The Bucks treat me like royalty. It's worth the price and inconvenience to get to Milwaukee.
The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.
There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.
There were times when I couldn't make a simple decision without calling three or four other people. It was all pretty sick.
We barely skipped a beat. We had to brush up on a few subtleties, but we're The Eagles, so it's easy for us to do our music.
We decided we said we should do a couple of new songs if we are going to film our show.
We did a tour of large arenas for The Long Run. But then I realized the Eagles were running my life.
We didn't give interviews because when the Eagles gave a concert we wanted it to be an event. We wanted people to imagine what we were all like.
We do the Eagles about a year at a time. We got smart, finally. Don't try and plan too far ahead. Be pragmatic. Make sure that there is time off when there needs to be time off.
We exceeded our wildest expectations with Hell Freezes Over.
We plan The Eagles about a year at a time, and if it starts to wear on us, we take a break. When the first of the year rolls around, we'll decide whether we want to do more.
We've learned to say, Never say never.
When we decided to first write songs together we wrote Tequila Sunrise and Desperado the first week. That was really the beginning of our partnership.
When you're in a band, it's supposed to be equal. And when people emerge as having strengths in certain areas, other people are so resentful of having that strength.
Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.
One of his solo hits, "Smuggler's Blues," inspired an episode of
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