Stephen Stills

“I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.”

“David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.”

“I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around too much, and there are too many typos.”

“If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with.”

“After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.”

“One thing the blues ain't, is funny.”

“God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it.”

“Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.”

“I don't set out to write a political song. I am not one of those that feels compelled to write about what's going on.”

“I think that President Obama has done the best he possibly could during the first term considering that his opposition was willing to do whatever necessary to destroy him, even if it meant damaging the country in the process.”

“I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.”

“I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go.”

“There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.”

“I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.”

“Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.”

“I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.”

“That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.”

“You slow down when you get older.”

“Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected.”

“An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.”