The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.