Stephen Stills

“The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.”

“A commercial is a commercial.”

“Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.”

“Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records.”

“After about a year or so, I was in L.A.; I'd decided to try to get a band together out there.”

“I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.”

“There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.”

“We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.”

“I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.”