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I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.
I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.
There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.
I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.
Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.
Elections aren't supposed to be for sale... it's that simple.
I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.
I can't legislate a song into being, it just will not happen for me.
I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.
It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.
All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.
I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.
I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.
The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.
Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.
I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.
Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.
Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.
There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.
I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.
I've met Bill Clinton, Obama a couple of times... I certainly didn't meet George Bush, and wouldn't want to.
Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.
When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.
Jimi Hendrix could play better than our best guys and he did it while he was dancing while being completely outrageous.
I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.
The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth.
Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.
I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.
I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.
[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.
After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
The movie I've seen the most times, boy, that's a tough one. It would have to be a toss-up between Apocalypse Now and the first Star Wars. I think the first Star Wars.
Norah Jones is a breath of fresh air. Norah Jones can sing and play. She's got some talent. I was totally ecstatic that that girl got noticed, because she's wonderful.
I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.
I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.
I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.
Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.
Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...
The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?
I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.