Quotes from Neil Young

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

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.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

I watched the needle take another man.

I see a government completely out of control, and money is number one. Integrity isn't even on the map.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

Welfare mothers make better lovers.

Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

Music is fulfilling. The next day you feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel terrible -- unless you have more drugs.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

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

I just do what I do. I like to make music

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.