Neil Young Quotes

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

Nostalgic myself, I am a sucker for other men's nostalgia.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

Why am I not just some old woman ranting in a room? I think because what I say connects with people's truths.

The truth of the matter is - when we look at things - every movie we do - no matter what the subject matter is - we go to the universal theme of family. We always go to that because if the movie is about family, then any audience can relate to it.

I'll admit, when I look back on the past couple decades, a lot of it seems like a blur.

I hope that my lyrics have a way that they're so specific they become universal, and they go, 'Oh I've been there, I know what that's like.'

As I look back over my life, I've been an active person - obviously I was self-absorbed for a period of time.

It's not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it's more about the memories that you have. Where you can look at your life in these eras.

He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?