“The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?”
“My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.”
“There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.”
“I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.”
“I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.”
“When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music.”
“Being a hippy was the most natural thing in the world to me.”
“I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.”
“I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Now admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.”
“I do see things that are funny on the net. I Googled myself the other day and found out that I was worth $250m, and that I was the highest-paid guy in show business! I wish so hard it was true. It is, of course, the complete opposite. I'm neither rich nor do I make a lot of money.”