Quotes from Neil Young

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.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

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.

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

Rock and roll is here to stay.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

Hard working people stopping for a drink on the way to work.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.

What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

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.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.