Quotes By Neil Young

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

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

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.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

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.

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

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

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

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

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 just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

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.

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.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the '60s and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock'n'roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

No, I wasn't really influenced by that scene. Most of the songs on that album had been written well before Sex Pistols were ever heard of. "The Thrasher" was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby Stills & Nash in the mid-'70s. Do you know Lynyrd Skynyrd almost ended up recording "Powderfinger" before my version came out? We sent them an early demo of it because they wanted to do one of my songs.

As soon as you start talking about mystique, you have none.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.