Best moment in music? Sometimes when I’m playing my guitar, I get to a point where it gets very cold and icy inside me. It’s very refreshing. Every breath is like you’re at the North Pole. Your head starts to freeze. Your inhalations are big—more air than you ever thought there is starts pouring in. There’s something magical about it. Sometimes when it happens, you wonder if you’re gonna be okay. Can you handle it?
Yes, there was something good that came out of having polio as a kid. Walking.(Esquire)
"I Write a lot, writing It gives me relief, it gives me something else to do so that music doesn't wear me out, so that I don't wear the music out. Everything should be taken in its own dose. You don't want to OD on music and then the music loses its potency. If that's all I did, it wouldn't be as good. I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead."
Young reveals his feelings about interviews. "I hate interviews," he offers, fairly unequivocally. Journalists, meanwhile, are "jerks" and "dickheads". He is specifically referring to the journalists from Associated Press present at the infamous mid-80s interview when Young – he of the peace signs on his guitar strap and the song about how he never knew a man could tell so many lies until he saw Richard Nixon.(The Guardian)
The wisest person I ever met had to be my companion in the hospital. I was recovering from complications after an operation to remove an aneurism in my brain. She was about eighty-five years old and maybe five feet tall. An old black lady from South Carolina. This young nurse wasn’t really in touch with what she was doing, and the old lady would tell her how to do what she needed to do without telling her. She never talked down to her, just gave examples. I felt that this old woman must be deeply religious, but there was nothing forceful about her. I woke up one morning at a quarter to six and looked out the window. Fog was on the bridge outside the room, and I said, “Well, that’s just beautiful.” And she said: “Yes, it is.” She turned toward me with this eighty-five-year-old face that didn’t have a line on it, no strain, nothing, and she said: “So the master’s not taking you. It’s not your turn.”
"There's nothing much I can do about it and it doesn't matter to me. I find it of interest just to look at it and go, hey wow, that's something else. What am I going to do with it? I don't know what to do with it."
"Writing is very convenient, has a low expense and is a great way to pass the time," he tells the reader at one juncture, with admirable candour. "I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn't know what to do next."
"My manager had mentioned that Penguin was interested in me doing my memoirs, but I hadn't thought much about it. But then when I broke my toe I was just sitting there going, what am I gonna do now? I thought: why don't I just do that book?"
"I write a lot about my music here and introduce songs and albums you have never heard before. And I do it pretty regularly. That’s what makes NYA good for music lovers …… but I also write about the Earth a lot. "
"Earth news is back in the paper and currently not as many folks see it as the front page, and I know you come here mainly for my music news…but..…That said, The Earth, our home, our children’s home, is in Big Trouble. Our grandchildren will not grow up in a similar world to what we knew when we were young. But that’s not all. Species are going extinct daily."Please don’t wait another day. Our leaders are scared to act. They would never be re-elected. That system is not working as it did historically because we have never faced this before. (read the full message HERE)
In 1972, MIT released a study saying our life here on Earth would never be the same after 2040, mostly because of Climate Chaos and its effect on our daily existence and our business world.
MIT has been proven correct. We are on course for those predictions they made. A little ahead of schedule actually. We need to change a lot of things right now. Right now. Today.
