Like Me Some Neil Young

Neil Young Comes Clean - NYTimes.com 

A good, interesting look. Enough details and quotes to let you in his world for awhile. An original. Estimable, perhaps essential. Still refuses to allow his music to be licensed for ads.

“I worry about global warming,” Demme says, comparing himself to Young as a man of action, “but I’m not out there meeting with scientists and funding research.”

“I’m not here to sell things. That’s what other people do, I’m creating them. If it doesn’t work out, I’m sorry; I’m just doing what I do. You hired me to do what I do, not what you do."

"True enough, the wind had picked up at the end of the set, when Young played “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black),” a version of which poses one of rock’s eternal riddles: Is it better to burn out or fade away?... “At 65, it seems that I may not be at the peak of my rock ’n’ roll powers,” he said. “But that is not for sure.”