Written in a car on my way to Hana, Maui from the airport. Recorded at the ranch during rehearsals for the CSNY '74 reunion tour. Later done up well by Linda Ronstadt, a soulful girl with big brown eyes. Neil Young Decade liner notes 1977

Once I did a tour with Linda Ronstadt. It was a long time ago. And it was really good for me. It was pretty wild. She got thrown out of one place we played in for saying something. I heard she got thrown out of Las Vegas last year for saying something else. She's good. Anyway, she did this song here. She's done a couple of my songs and she always does a good job on them. Neil Young Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri, USA November 18, 2007

Once I did a tour with Linda Ronstadt. That's a long time ago. She was really great. She still is. She chooses not to come out much. She did a lot of my songs. And she recorded a lot of them. And she sometimes blew my mind by recording my mistakes that I made on mine. Neil Young Orpheum Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA December 3, 2007

This is a song I wrote in ... the only thing I remember about this song ... for some reason ... is my friend Elliot ... we're walking into an airplane. He was getting off the airplane to come and see me after I'd written the song. I said, "I got this great new song. I want to play it for you. I'm over here in Hawaii. Come on over." This is before you could send it all over. So he landed there. This little plane lands ... because he landed in Honolulu and then he came to Maui ... he gets off the plane in Maui ... and he sees me ... and he comes running around ... and he's walking towards me ... and he hits his head right on the fuel tank and he goes down. I always think of that when I play the song. There we go again, it has nothing to do with anything. Neil Young Hammersmith Apollo, London, England March 15, 2008

The song that I just played [Homefires] was played in a session in the redwoods in 1974 maybe, somewhere in there. The song I played just now, you may have heard or may have not heard, was right before this one [Love Is A Rose]. So I played that one [Homefires] and recorded it and I played this one [Love Is A Rose]. Different guitars too. Neil Young Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Illinois, USA July 1, 2018