Henley Quotes

Recalling his father winning a gold medal in rowing at the 1948 Olympics in London: He was in a coxless pair with a man called Jack Wilson. I`ve got a fantastic picture on my desk of the two of them getting their medals on a pontoon at Henley. I imagine they were playing the national anthem and my dad is very rigid, `this is the way to behave`, and Jack Wilson is loose and groovy and looks like he should be mixing a martini. I sometimes wished my father could take that pleasure in himself.

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.

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.

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.

That`s my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.