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I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.

I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

I gave up bread, and I've lost a bunch of weight, which is very good because I'm diabetic.

There has never been a communism that worked. They were all dictatorships or oligarchies, every single one.

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.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.

It can't happen here is number one on the list of famous last words.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing ... It's really just a response to life.

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.

I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

Keep saying no to her,
Since she was a baby.
Keep saying no to her,
Not even maybe.

from "Why?" by the Byrds

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

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.

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.

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.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

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.

I've met Bill Clinton, Obama a couple of times ... I certainly didn't meet George Bush, and wouldn't want to.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

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.

My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.