He made a bunch of rights and lefts through the for­est before get­ting out to unlock the gate. Oth­ers might have an elec­tronic gate, but Young likes the mechan­i­cal expe­ri­ence of slip­ping a key into a pad­lock and swing­ing some­thing open. He is fun­da­men­tally ana­log, despite the occa­sional elec­tronic excesses in his music. He likes amps with knobs that go to 12 and things that click when you touch them.

[…] Young picked up a con­troller that appeared to be capa­ble of land­ing a rocket on an aster­oid and reminded me that, as an investor in Lionel Trains, he invented Train Mas­ter Com­mand Con­trol (which allows you to run mul­ti­ple trains at once), as well as Rail­Sounds (which pro­vides real­is­tic rail­road audio). Young lost a lot of money on his invest­ment, but he’s still a board mem­ber at Lionel and ended up with a lot of cool gear, so it all sort of worked out.via Neil Young Comes Clean – NYTimes.com.

I think I would get along with this guy.