Cameron Crowe

We're going to take a quick break, but before we do, I just want to play what Patti Smith said to me about sacred wounds in an earlier podcast that Cameron just spoke about.

They're sacred wounds.

Welcome back to my conversation with Cameron Crowe.

Kathy died in your home.

You were 10 years old.

She was 19.

You write, they had removed her body from the house while I was asleep.

It happened on a Wednesday night, less than two weeks after her 19th birthday.

My mom found her.

We were now living in the house where it happened.

She had taken you to a record store prior to her death.

Which, as you point out in the book, are the color of cockroaches.

She took you because you wanted to impress a girl, and she suggested buying some music for this girl, and you bought Silence Is Golden.

Let's play a little bit of that.

Do you find it painful?

I at times wished my brother had left some sort of a note, and he didn't.

And Kathy didn't leave a message for you either.

But something happened after she died that you felt was like a message from her.

It was California Girl and Don't Worry Baby.

I just want to play Don't Worry Baby.