[Hippie Dream] - I wrote that one for Crosby. But I guess it could have been for me, or for anybody. It’s really about the excesses of our whole generation. From hippie to yuppie – I mean, it’s been quite an evolution. Neil Young Rolling Stone Interview with James Henke June 12, 1988

DJ: The line in the last song, "Hippie Dream", "The wooden ships were just a hippie dream", did you have David in mind at all? NY: Yeah, I had him in mind. I had him in mind for about five years and I kept writing different things. Then one night I wrote that. I called him up and said, "I wrote this song. You're probably going to hear it. All you have to do is prove that I didn't know what I was talking about. And I'd be a happy guy if you could do that." Neil Young Rockline Radio Interview August 18, 1986