I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

I like playing in other projects.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I love having other people sing my songs.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

Tell me what you want, sweetheart … Anything. And I’ll do it.

I thought maybe I'd be a farmer. That was another silly notion. I think I'd last about five minutes, being a farmer.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.