Cameron Crowe

Well, he died of cancer at a young age, and he knew he was dying.

He didn't tell anybody except a small group of collaborators.

And he did this album, Black Star, which is his statement about the death that was coming.

And it's profound, and it's managed, and it is amazing.

An opportunity that he did not throw away.

And he also said in one of the songs, you know, I can't give you everything.

So he kept a lot for himself.

I think he found a life where he was in love and living in New York and he loved his family.

And the mirror that I held up to him, Terry, was a glimpse of a time when he...

almost died and wasn't looking after himself and involved in drugs.

And too many of his friends, he said, were drug dealers.

And he's lucky that he made it out alive.

A little bit.

I've talked about Penny quite a bit before.

Penny Trumbull is an open book.

She always said at the time, when she got older, she wanted to use whatever money she'd saved to put together an old folks home for old rock stars up in Oregon, which she did, with a little bit of the money that she made, which wasn't that much, to be able to use her story in the movie.

So she loved music and behaved exactly that way.

I was...

pretty young at the time.

And so for Penny and the Flying Garter Girls, who was like her clan, who would fail at not getting emotionally involved with the bands.