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

- Neil Young

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.

- Neil Young

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

- Neil Young

Live music is better.

- Neil Young

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

- Neil Young

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

- Neil Young

I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

- 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.

- Neil Young

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

- Neil Young

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.

- Neil Young

Rock and roll is here to stay.

- Neil Young

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

- Neil Young

Earth is a flower and it's pollinating.

- Neil Young

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

- Neil Young

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

- Neil Young

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.

- Neil Young

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

- Neil Young

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.

- Neil Young

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.

- Neil Young

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

- Neil Young