I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.