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Every # Veteran is a hero.
Inside the silence is a melody.
The song tells me what to play.
New Zealand is in my heart, always.
Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.
My Maserati does 185, I lost my license, now I don't drive.
I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.
Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard.
I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.
You can work on an album forever, but finishing it is a whole different deal.
I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.
I'm running against a woman who's got David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel running her campaign.
The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.
The message from 'Analog Man' is that I'm back, and it won't be 20 years until the next album.
In the very early Seventies and the very late Sixties, nobody out here was originally from L.A.
We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long.
Mass inflation, welfare line, gross economy, trade it all for what's behind curtain number three.
A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.
I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.
You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.
I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.
The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.
I don't remember everything about my life, but I'm very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on - they fill in the blanks.
Now I'm running against a woman who, my God, that's all she talks about. Our true heroes, it's the last thing in the world they talk about.
People often ask me if I believe in God, and I kinda have to, because I'm still here. I had not planned on living this long, and here I am.
There's a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.
I had left the James Gang, left Cleveland, and gone to Colorado because Bill Szymczyk was there, and so were a whole bunch of other people I knew.
I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.
It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.
My wife one time got a fishbone stuck in her throat and had to fly back to L.A. from Monte Carlo to have it taken out. I thought, 'Wow, what a great blues song!'
What matters is voting for where you live: Who's your mayor, who's your police chief, who represents you, your city council, your judges. That matters that you vote.
I've always written observations on the world, and now there's two of them. The virtual world is a new thing, and it doesn't really exist, but people are in it a lot.
I was a fan of the group. I thought they were great - loved The Eagles - but I thought that their beautiful harmonies would sound amazing with some rock guitar behind them.
With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.
I like to give people equipment and stuff. For me, it's a kind of payback. Anyone who is an influence or hero for me, I'm always concerned with how I can balance the karma.
I've been able to meet a lot of vets at different functions and events, and it just hit me that I should step it up a notch, and I have a lot of peers who feel the same way.
There's a different feeling when you've played with musicians for 30 years. A lot of stuff doesn't even need to be said, especially onstage. We just read each other so well.
There's no more record companies, so I have to get on the Internet and let people know the album is out there. I don't know if we're working for it, or if it's working for us.
We're sober now, and we all have families and obligations of being senior citizens. Oh, that's hard to say. We have grown-up responsibilities. We used to all live in the same car.
People try to function in the real world - the analog world - while they're texting in the digital world, and they run into the car in front of them. It doesn't work to be in both.
In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that's a blessing.
Here's my problem: Hillary Clinton has been found grossly negligent of classified information. Period. She should not have any security clearance. That should be taken away from her.
We are at war, and it's ongoing, and there's no end in sight. More and more guys are coming back from it, and the transition back to civilian life is almost too big a mountain to climb.
I play like I always used to, with no agenda. And, every once in a while, I will play something I really hadn't thought about or even intended to play. And I'll go, 'Whoa! What was that?'
'Turn to Stone' was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It's a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State.
I relate with military families and Gold Star families. Gold Star families are families where somebody didn't come home. My father died in 1949. He was a flight instructor in the Army Air Corp.
I love Las Vegas, but I never get a chance to play a club like the House of Blues. I guess we've graduated to a bigger scale than that. When the Eagles come in and play, that's on a grand scale.