“I’m just brutally fuckin’ honest about goin’ ahead and doin’ what I have to do,” Young tells McDonough. “But it’s not that I can’t sense people’s feelings. People are hurt. Whenever you move forward, you leave a fuckin’ wake. … It’s a big wake. A lotta destruction behind me. … I’m not a fuckin’ SAINT. I can be just as much of an asshole as anybody else — and have been.”
It does sound like the book is just a little bit more than you want to know about the real Neil, but as Goldberg points out early on, you don’t have to read the book to find that out; it’s all there in the music.
Just for the sake of argument, suppose my favourite Neil albums are After The Goldrush, Rust Never Sleeps and Ragged Glory? And suppose I consider Harvest his most over-rated work, and Sleeps With Angels (available in almost every secondhand bin on the planet, it seems) his most under-rated..?)