Cameron Crowe

Exactly.

And it was true, you know.

I really felt like the best of the music that we loved that did sneak into our family had its roots in wonderful writing.

For example, Joni Mitchell.

Simon and Garfunkel, there was something about the song Mrs. Robinson.

that rubbed my mom the wrong way.

And I think it was the way they said, Cuckoo Cachoo.

Totally.

You got it.

She thought it was sneering.

And she did.

She pulled out the Bookends album cover and showed us the pupils of Paul Simon and promised us that he was high on it.

And the funny thing is when the movie came out with that scene in it, I think it was on CNN, somebody was interviewing Paul Simon and they said, you know, what about this movie, Almost Famous, holding up the bookends album covers, you know, Francis McDormand saying they're on pot.

He's like, we were.

Absolutely.

So she saw clearly, and it was inevitable, I think, that music was going to come in, you know, underneath the door or through the window.

Somehow the power of rock was going to find my sister and me.

And it did.

To this day, that's our favorite language with each other, sharing music and the things that happen when music kind of takes over and transports you and gives you that feeling.

that you really can't get any other place.