It's not hard to remain optimistic, because I just have to remember and look in the faces of my children, and I realize I have to fight and I have to speak out and do the best I can to make this a better place for them.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

We knew that if we called ourselves by our real names, we'd have the freedom to play with anybody we wanted to and still have recognition... we decided that was the best way the names fell off the tongue... Crosby, Stills, Nash-that's the best combination, we thought it rhythmically made sense.