"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me."

• Born Neil Percival Young Nov. 12, 1945, in Toronto, Canada

• Young scored a hit in 1966 with the anti-war song "For What It's Worth" as a member of Buffalo Springfield. He cemented his solo career in 1970 with After The Gold Rush, a Billboard 200 Top 10 album.

• Young earned his first career GRAMMY nominations for 1970 as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, And Young. He won his first career GRAMMY as an art director for his boxed set The Archives Vol. 1 (1963–1972) for 2009. For 2010 he won Best Rock Song for "Angry World." 

• Young has turned down every commercial endorsement he has been offered.

• Young was honored as 2010's MusiCares Person of the Year. The annual Person of the Year gala raises funds for MusiCares, which provides services and resources that cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies for music people. He was also honored with the President's Merit Award by The Recording Academy's Producers & Engineers Wing in 2014.

• The exhibit California Dreamin': The Sounds Of Laurel Canyon 1965–1977 opened at the GRAMMY Museum in 2014, and featured photographs from Young's time in Crosby, Stills, Nash, And Young.

• The annual Bridge School Benefit Concert, founded by Young in 1986, raises money to help children with severe speech and physical impediments communicate using assistive technology.