Cameron Crowe

And I got to tell you, going back and listening to a lot of those interviews because I kept everything, they really talked to me.

They really opened up.

And that informed the life I was lucky enough to have later as a writer and a director in movies because I knew how people spoke.

I transcribed all my interviews myself, so I knew that people don't talk elegantly

But they can pour their heart out in half sentences.

So it was really one big magic carpet ride of learning about people.

And it started early.

I'm a lucky guy.

Sadly, yes.

Absolutely.

Intermittently.

When I listen to that, it takes me right back to when I first met him.

He said almost exactly those words.

And can you imagine being 15 or 16 and somebody enters your life who speaks that kind of truth with that kind of passion and treats you like an equal?

Yeah.

Well, let me give you the context.

His stance when I met him that day was, it's over.

You know, it's gone.

That passion, that thing, that flame that is true rock, true music, it's over.

They've taken it over.