Don Henley

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.

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.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.