Don Henley Quotes

Playing the drums hurts my back.

The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!

When competing a lot and traveling, I have problems with my lower back because I'm always on the plane or sitting. That's something that does bother me from time to time, but I try to stay on top of it.

Once a year my back will go out and it'll be... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.

Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.

My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.

No, I had a back injury early on in my life.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

Just about every player on tour has a bad back. It's just one of those games that does mess you up a little bit. You've got to keep looking after it.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

I think I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago, but it takes a bigger toll - I get back pain!

I play every day. I had a bad back, but they fixed it.

Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.

You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life.

I had a couple of car accidents when I was in my early 20s, and I used to have such a bad back.

I've always hated exercise, but because I've had problems with my back, I now do Pilates, and I walk a lot.

My back isn't great.

I'm just trying to avoid any future surgery. I'm just trying to stand up straighter. And the hip and back are better.