Neil Young Quotes

I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn't stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there's a lot of time when you're traveling - time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.

I'm working myself to death.

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.

… a job of infinite stress

Normally, I work 18 hours a day.

We'd tour for a year and a half and do an album and then tour for another year and a half and do another album. We thought we were invincible, but someone should have said, 'You guys need to take a little time off.'

I drove a blue and yellow Super Shuttle van for two 10-hour shifts on the weekend after a week at ACT of 10 A.M.-10 P.M. I wasn't surviving too much.

You're constantly working and missing meals. You're away from your family, and you're doing it for, like, eight months.

Creative burnout and physical burnout is real. I mean, there are moments when I get home - after overseeing, you know, almost 16 collections a year - where I can't move.

I'm pretty much working 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.

I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.

I think I was probably overworked. I was doing huge tours and having two days off and then going out again. It burned me out.

The business has taken a toll on me.

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.

I am used to working long hours with no sleep.

I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost was that I was chronically overloaded, weary, and short of time for politicking, smoothing ruffled feathers, and simply resting.

I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks.

It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.

It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath.