Music Quotes

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.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

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

I look at radio as gone ... Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.

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.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

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

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.