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Where is this headed? I’ll be damned if I know, Hoss some highway at the bottom of some hill? Tell me about it. There are many reasons to live and die, too. Of course there are many reasons to be straight and many reasons to be stoned, but that doesn’t solve anything. As a matter of fact, I’ve written this whole damn book straight. Anyway, I have been advised to stop smoking grass, and I have. What the hell is that cloudy stuff in my brain? I wish I’d never seen that s–t. He was a writer and lost his mind to dementia. I don’t know what it is or what it isn’t, but I do know my dad’s history. My brain has a lot of something else in it that you can only see on an MRI. My doctor does not think that is good for my brain. Some people are probably saying I should get high and write more songs ’cause that works.
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I always have said that thinking is the worst thing for music, and now I would like to know how to get back to music without getting high. Getting high is something I used to do to forget one world’s realities and slip into the other world, the music world, where all the melodies and words come together in a thoughtless and random way like a gift. Of course I’ve written over 90,000 words in this book, and that is different for me, too. I haven’t written a song in more than half a year, and that is different for me. I heard the Pistol Annies sing about reasons why they’re broke and so who would invest in their future? One’s drinkin’, one’s smokin’, one’s taking pills. “I highly recommend it to any old rocker who is out of cash and doesn’t know what to do next.” But perhaps most captivating is Young’s newly sober infatuation with the writing life. Young explains how he missed the Junos after almost bleeding to death in a Manhattan hotel lobby and how he wrote Cinnamon Girl, Down By the River and Cowgirl in the Sand in one day while running a fever. The book’s road stories jump from dressing rooms to emergency wards, with cameos from Dylan, Springsteen-and Charles Manson. At 66, Young has followed in the footsteps of his father, Canadian journalist Scott Young, whose laconic voice seems to echo through every page of the son’s spare prose. An intimate mix of memoir, meditation and rant, Neil Young’s Waging a Heavy Peace roams a world of music and drugs, wives and children, cars, guitars and model trains. Like Bob Dylan ( Chronicles), Keith Richards ( Life) and Patti Smith ( Just Kids), yet another rock icon has been seduced by print. Harry Diltz/Blue Rider Publicity/Penguin Group