"Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach."
"We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice."
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Source: Neil Young (2014). “Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars”, p.119, Penguin
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