Quotes from Neil Young

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a one-way ticket to the land of truth And my suitcase in my hand

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

Piracy is the new radio.

Love is a healer and I love you.

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love.

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

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

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

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

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.

As soon as you start preaching, nobody wants to hear you because then you're a jerk.

Vinyl is great, I made a lot of vinyl, but I don't want new vinyl that's from digital sources, because that's a rip off.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

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.

I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

Live music is better.