Interviewer: You have been misunderstood on this - "better to burn out than to rust". And that people think it means burnout, like, party 'til you drop kind of burnout. NY: Well, maybe that's what ... that's not what I mean. I see the image of a shooting star - a falling star - it's going so fast. But it's the one in the sky you're watching, because it's the only one that's moving. Some of the other ones are twinkling and they're nice, but the one that going like that [moving across the sky], that's the one you're going to go for. And it may not burn out - or it may - it depends on how long of a trip it's on. Neil Young Neil Young: The Raw & Uncut Interview 1988