Graham Nash still cautiously optimistic about Crosby Stills Nash and Young reunion: ‘Let’s see what happens’

First, David Crosby said some unkind things about Neil Young’s new girlfriend. Then Neil Young said he wasn’t working with Crosby Stills Nash and Young anymore. Then Crosby said … OK, you get the picture.

Now, Graham Nash is stepping in, with words of wisdom, words of forgiveness and — just maybe — words of hope for anyone who’d like to see CSN working with good old Y again.

“I mean you’ve got to understand, Neil Young knows what we bring to his music,” Nash tells SiriusXM. “He’s not a fool. He’s just a little upset right now. And I understand it. You know, he’s going through personal problems with his wife, Pegi. They’re getting divorced. You know, he’s found true love that he says with Daryl Hannah perhaps. And the ways of the heart are mysterious and I can only wish both Pegi and Neil and Daryl the very very best with their life. Let’s get on with it and let’s see what happens.”

That said, Nash admits that what Crosby said (specifically that the actress Daryl Hannah, who Young has been seeing since announcing a pending divorce from wife Pegi, was “a purely poisonous predator“) were better left unsaid. In fact, Nash calls Crosby’s comments “inappropriate.”

But a history as long, and as successful, as Crosby Stills Nash and Young’s is bigger than these kind of every-day missteps, Nash argues. And, well, it’s not like these things haven’t happened before.

“You know, whatever Neil wants to say is fine with me,” he adds. “It would be sad to me if the music of Crosby Stills Nash and Young didn’t go forward because of an inappropriate statement by David to Neil about his relationship with Daryl Hannah. I mean if we’re not more grown up and if we’re not more realistic about what the true value of our friendship is, it would be very sad to me.”

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