I'm just talking about people who don't to hear a confrontational message. They don't want to hear, uh, No Fear. They don't want to hear about certain things. They just want to hear about love. That's what they want to hear about. That will relax them. Because, pretty soon, hey really need to get away. They put on the radio - they don't need to be attacked. They're feeling that way because the rest of the world is not really ... maybe they don't feel great about the world, so they want to get out the world and just go to ...
Unfortunately, living in that musical space is people like me. I'm there and there's a lot people like me that want to sing about things they care about. The song started from ... I was playing a lot of songs about anti-corporate songs and all these things, and somebody just ... I got the message ... people want to hear about love, that's what they want to hear. I'm going, "Well, I don't give a ... I don't care. I've sang about love already. "Only Love Can Break Your Heart". I sang about many aspects of love." Just quite recently I did an album called "Storytone" that's all about love. That was only a couple albums ago. I'm going, "Does this mean that I can only do 'that'? And I can't talk about things like the dangers of different things and incongruous things that are happening. Pollution, corruption, corporate government." Those things - I think they're interesting.
Neil Young
WTF Podcast with Marc Maron #717
June 20, 2016