DF: What do you believe? Where is the hope in the Greendale songs and story?  The energy in the last couple of songs ["Sun Green" and "Be the Rain"] - that's youth rising out of this. It hasn't gotten to the point where things have started moving yet, but this period is the biggest breeding ground for revolution in this country since the mid-Sixties. I don't think there's been a more ripe time for a generation to come along and rebel against all this.  Neil Young Rolling Stone/David Fricke September 3, 2003

DF: What was the last song you wrote?  Be the Rain  DF: Literally the final song on Greendale.  Yeah. It was about nine months ago. DF: Isn't that a long time between new songs?  No. You gotta give things a chance to settle down. There was a song at the beginning of Greendale, a hangover from Are You Passionate?, called "I Don't Want to Be Sorry." It's a cool song -- me and the Horse. But I didn't use it. It was a transition song.  Neil Young Rolling Stone/David Fricke September 3, 2003