The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing.

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.

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

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

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

Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played.

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...