Pastoral Resources

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don't know why.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.