Stephen Stills

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You slow down when you get older.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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'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.

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

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

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

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

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.

A commercial is a commercial.

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