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

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

You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.

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

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.

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

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