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As Lady Gaga sings the praises of drink and drugs this week, veteran rocker Neil Young has revealed he has been sober for a year after quitting alcohol and weed in 2011.
The rocker quit his vices in October 2011 in order to pen his autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace, which is due for release on 11 October 2012. He has revealed it was curiosity, more than anything else, that was the driving influence behind his new found sobriety.
"I did it for 40 years. Now I want to see what it's like to not do it," Neil Young told the New York Times. "It's just a different perspective."
"The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognise myself. I need a little grounding in something, and I am looking for it everywhere," he adds.
Young also spoke of the toll of living his rock and roll lifestyle - sober or not, and spoke of his plans to eventually retire from music.
"I don't think I'm going to be able to continue to mainly be a musician forever, because physically I think it's going to take its toll on me - it's already starting to show up here and there."
In the meantime however, fans can look forward to a new album from Neil Young and Crazy Horse on 29 October 2012 when they release Psychedelic Pill, they're second album of the year.
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