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...

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

When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

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

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

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