Cameron Crowe

It's 12 pages.

It's striking.

And this was the time David Bowie was trying to figure out what was coming next.

And I was lucky enough to be around.

And I asked him all kinds of stuff.

And he was both...

warm and engaging, steely and brilliant, and lost.

It's so funny that you asked that.

I asked him at one point, because his real name was David Jones, right?

So I asked him at one point,

am I meeting David Jones or am I meeting David Bowie, the creation?

And he said, you're meeting David Jones who's aggressively throwing David Bowie at you.

Oh, wow.

I know, I know, I know.

He even, I asked him at one point, I was like, how do you think you're going to die?

Do you think you'll die on stage?

Because Ziggy Stardust, one of his characters, I think was based on somebody who had died on stage.

And he said, no, no, no, I don't think that's going to happen to me.

I think my, I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but he said, I think my death will be an event, something that I manage and produce and make my own statement.

And that is exactly what happened.