Cameron Crowe

And that made me...

I don't know, it made people know that I wasn't there to join the band, party with the band.

I was there with a notebook full of questions based on loving music.

And that really swung the door open.

Exactly.

And it was true.

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

That rubbed my mom the wrong way.

And I think it was the way they said, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.

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.

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 cover, 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.