The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself.

<div class="zemanta-img" style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neilyoung2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Black and white photo of Neil Young singing at..." border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured" height="494" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Neilyoung2.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="328" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Even though he once said he’d never write one, Neil Young has a memoir coming out …<br /><br />…and he’s quit drugs.<br /><br />The 66-year-old singer-songwriter recently sat down with David Carr of The New York Times to talk about his new autobiography,Waging Heavy Peace, and his year-long sobriety.<br /><br />(Of course, that’s just the condensed version; there’s a little more to the story – like the time he was arrested on drug charges with Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills, and the time he partied with Charles Manson).<br /><br /> <br /><br />No doubt, the bits in Young’s autobiography that cover drug and alcohol abuse sound intense, but what about the past year he’s spent sober?<br /><br />Young tells Carr that drinking and using drugs was something he did for 40 years (“Now I want to see what it’s like to not do it. It’s just a different perspective.”), but he dives a little deeper into that “different perspective” in the book:<br /><br /><br />The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself. I need a little grounding in something and I am looking for it everywhere.</span>

The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself.

Even though he once said he’d never write one, Neil Young has a memoir coming out … …and he’s quit drugs. The 66-year-old singer-songwrite...

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