I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].

Neil Young

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Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

fighting light darkness

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

next reason past

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right. by Neil Young

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

things-work-out work-out song

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

creative-juices hell way

There's more to a picture than meets the eye. by Neil Young

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.

way-to-live voice moving

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our childr... by Neil Young

Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

mother song children

A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement.

cds fashion people

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my..... by Neil Young

My my, hey hey... Rock and roll is here to stay. Hey hey, my my... Rock and roll will never die.

rock-and-roll hey rocks

You have to be ready to give everything you have, and you have to make sure you've really got a lot to give. Because if ... you're not ready to give everything you have, ... then you're nothin'.

not-ready ready giving

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he liste... by Neil Young

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

pioneers home jobs

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as... by Neil Young

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

peaks-and-valleys valleys life

I've always been better moving than I am standing still. by Neil Young

I've always been better moving than I am standing still.

standing-still stills moving

Music is fulfilling. The next day you by Neil Young

Music is fulfilling. The next day you

next-day drug feel-better

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream by Neil Young

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

dreamer dream song

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm gett... by Neil Young

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

hurricanes eye song

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters. by Neil Young

There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters.

rocks real matter

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all get... by Neil Young

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

strange real song

If you follow every dream, you might get lost. by Neil Young

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

dream song might

Corporations don't have children. They don't have feelings or souls. They don't depend on uncontaminated water, clean air, or healthy food to survive. They are beholden to one thing - the bottom line.

air water children