Quotes from Glenn Frey

My songs grow on people - like warts.

Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.

There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

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.

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.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

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.

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.

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

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.

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.

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.

Some people, they just don't get a joke.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Hey, I didn't make a big deal out of Hotel California. The 18 million people that bought it did.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.

That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.