“I have a particular personal weakness for blonde haired women in black attire. There’s a striking, eye catching allure to blonde hair and black gowns or heels. Not the goth look. But it’s a striking combination for me. So when you drive around in Los Angeles, you see that look on just about every other street corner. It’s a very popular look for myself, as well as probably every other guy in town. So I thought instead of limiting the song lyrics to just blondes in black, I should write the lyric to include the other two thirds of the female populace, which is brunettes and redheads. So I changed it to girls in black. I thought it was kind of broadening my interest base there to change it from blondes in black to girls in black.”Don Felder (130)

“Well, it’s probably the only song on the record that I started writing years ago. My father passed away when he was 66 years old. He had worked his whole life, retired at 65, and then the last year of his life he passed away and never got to see my success in the Eagles. I’d just joined the Eagles and was just starting to take off, and he never really got to see the success. So I started writing this really pretty acoustic song called “Road to Forever,” about us all showing up on this planet and living our lives, but going down this road that we all know where it goes. And so when I started writing for this record, I had been talking with this producer, Greg Ladanyi. He produced Warren Zevon and Jackson Browne. I think he even did a Don Henley record. A bunch of really great records on his career. For about three months he and I were in talks to produce this record. We’d play golf, listen to my songs, talk about where we would record it, who was going to play on it, when we would start. And literally about a week before we were due to commence going into the studio on this record, he got on a plane and went to Greece to visit another one of his acts that he was producing who was the Greek Madonna, and had a tragic fall off the back of a stage in this soccer arena, and passed away. So when we got in the studio, I said, “I’ve got this song that I started with my father, who just passed, but I’m going to call all the people in to work on this song that Greg and I had talked about and kind of make it a homage to Greg and my dad”.”Don Felder (130)

“Somebody that’s been really broken by love in the past. And you’re trying to get them to have the faith to take that leap of faith again to open up their hearts and try to love again.”Don Felder (130)