Michael McDonald : (7)

" Warner Bros. was a great label to be affiliated with. It’s the best label out there, and the fact that I was with them for 20 years was just an honor. " - Michael McDonald

" I wish I wrote songs like Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Don Henley, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, so many of the songwriters I admire. They have the ability to say things. " - Michael McDonald

" I love to write songs, but they don’t come easy to me – I spend a lot of time writing really dumb stuff that I have to look at the next day and think, ‘God, what was I thinking?’ That’s my process, is just to go through a lot of dumb stuff and hope that, after a lot of hard work, I’ll find a good idea. " - Michael McDonald

" Most of my life is taken up with family. It takes me awhile to get a record together that I feel is worthy of putting out. " - Michael McDonald

" I hope to capture the public’s imagination, but I can’t live in the anxiety of that. " - Michael McDonald

" In order for life to be more than a frustrating game of one-upsmanship, one has to remain emotionally open and vulnerable. " - Michael McDonald

" When I was with the Doobies, the style of music was that we all went over the falls with chord progressions, trying to make things as complex and interconnected as possible. " - Michael McDonald