CC: Have you got a name for the new album? I think I'll call it My Old Neighborhood. Either that or Ride My Llama. It's weird, I've got all these songs about Peru, the Aztecs and the Incas. Time travel stuff. We've got one song called "Marlon Brando, John Ehrlichman, Pocahontas and Me," I'm playing a lot of electric guitar and that's what I like best. Two guitars, bass and drums. And it's realy flying off the ground too. Fucking unbelievable. I've got a bet with Elliot that it'll be out before the end of September. After that we'll probably go out on a fall tour of 3000 seaters. Me and Crazy Horse again. I couldn't be happier. That, combined with the bachelor life...I feel magnificent. Now is the first time I can remember coming out of a relationship, definitely not wanting to get into another one. I'm just not looking. I'm so happy with the space I'm in right now. It's like spring. [laughs] I'll sell you two bottles of it for $1.50. Neil Young Rolling Stone interview with Cameron Crowe August 14, 1975

I learned a lot today about one of the people in my songs. I don't quite know what to make of it. Some of it's not true. Some of it must be true. So I will sing the song and maybe I'll find out what the answer is. But ... we take a lot things from other people and make them into bad things. That's obvious. Neil Young Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA January 31, 2019

Here's an old song I wrote in the seventies just after Marlon Brando received his Academy award and didn't accept it. And sent an Indian girl to receive the award and make a few comments. I don't know if anyone remembers it. I know Marlon does. Neil Young Centerstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, Illinois, USA November 17, 1992

[talking about the Hitchhiker recording session at Indigo Ranch on August 11, 1976] I started with Pocahontas, a song I had recently written. I previously tried it, recording with Crazy Horse for an album called Zuma, but that version did not make the cut. Then came another capo change for Powderfinger, which I had also tried for Zuma with The Horse and not captured well enough to use. Then, came Captain Kennedy, a complete (???) I had never played before, followed by Hawaii and Give Me Strength, two songs written around my recent breakup with Carrie Snodgress, mother of my first son Zeke. At this time, Briggs joined us in the playing room and we stopped the proceeding to do some more libations. That accomplished, Briggs returned to the control room; "Rolling!" he announced. We continued with Ride My Lama, another outtake from Zuma, followed by Hitchhicker. You may be able to hear the drugs kicking in here… Then came Campaigner, a song I had written about politics and Nixon. Human Highway was next. At that point we moved my vocal microphone to the piano outside in the main studio for the last song, The Old Country Waltz. Briggs did not want to change the mic, so we had to carry it out there. It was the same mic I had sung into; he wanted the songs to all be consistent without any unnecessary distractions or changes. He was mixing live as the songs went down, and my vocal mic was part of the sound. Neil Young KOTO FM radio Telluride CO September 1, 2017

I wrote this song at a friend of mine’s house. His name was Taylor Phelps. Neil Young Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, Oregon, USA March 8, 1999

Here's a story I wrote one night when I was just sitting around on one of my friend's farms out there. We were getting high sitting there in front of that old pot belly, thinking about what it could've been like. I turned over and said, "Wow, I wish I had my 12 string with me right now" Neil Young Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, USA November 24, 1976, Late Show

In the mid-seventies, I had collected some more wooden Indians that were placed in the trees around my Southern California home on the ocean in Malibu. At the time, I started taking ‘Woody’ (as he was then called) to some shows and having him stand onstage with me. He is still there with me. When I played the Boarding House in 77 or so, I had the three wooden Indians from Malibu on stage with me. I introduced a new song - recently written at my friend Taylor Phelp’s ranch. Regrettably, the Aids epidemic had just started and Taylor was taken by Aids. I played that new song, ‘Pocahontas’ at the Boarding House. We were making a movie at the time and we took all the wooden Indians from Malibu with us to Taos where we were filming. Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper and Russel Tamblyn helped with the film. Neil Young NYA - Roadstories - HONOUR THE TREATIES December 28, 2021

I made most of Comes a Time in Florida by myself, with these kids that were startin’ a recording studio—Triad. It was great. Used to come in in the afternoon and work three, four hours, go home. Did it all during the day. Acoustic guitars. Come in, lay down a basic, then I overdubbed—all me. Do overdubs on it with my acoustics, try a whole bunch of stuff. I did all kinds of things there—“Lost in Space” “Pocahontas” “Human Highway” “Goin’ Back.” Neil Young Shakey by Jimmy McDonough 2002