I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it’s everything and if you don’t do well your life’s over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it the less the fear is present.
I’d gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways it was everything I ever wanted but when it happened all I felt was total paralysing fear.
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage sense of responsibility and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I’ve maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all which I’m proudest of. And I’m still playing on people’s records and singing on people’s records.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience of which the purpose is too deep going too deep in the blood and soul for mental explanation or description.
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.