Q: What do you want to say in "Mideast Vacation"? NY: The song speaks for itself. Obviously it's not me personally that's talking. But it's a collection of the lost American soul. I don't know who he is, but he's out there. It's a song, you know. You read the newspaper, you look at the television, and then you go to sleep, and you wake up and you write a song. Twenty people become one person... If you try to break into "This is this, and this is that" it doesn't make any sense. Neil Young Press Conference, Hotel Hilton, Rome, Italy April 29, 1987