GW: How do you keep track of all your song ideas? NY: I'm pretty good at remembering. I also have an archivist, Joel Bernstein, who keeps track of this stuff for this big retrospective set I'm working on. Joel has been working with me for three years, and we've got the past pretty well sowed out. "Unknown Legend" actually was a song Joel brought me; he kept bringing me the lyrics and saying, "What is this thing?" I said, It's a song I started back in '82. I don't think I ever finished it." He kept bringing it back to me, and one day I picked up my guitar and finished it right there. But that doesn't happen very often with me. The real good ones come right away, just in one sitting. GW: So many writers just throw away songs...and they're gone forever. NY: It's a unique thing when you start a song at one point and finish it years later. Neil Young Guitar World/Gary Graff June 1993