I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

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

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.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

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

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.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.