John Fogerty

Unfortunately, yeah, we really romanticized the idea of dying young, burn bright, die young.

And it's all cool until they're pointing at you and you're the one that's going to die.

I mean, at that moment in life, most people, no, I don't want to die.

Up until then, it's just sort of a vague idea out there somewhere.

Well, you hear those words when you're young, of course.

Right.

That actually sounds kind of positive.

you know, because rock and roll, man.

When you're older, you can hear the same words and you say, yes, that's real, but it's not a positive thing anymore.

It's just sort of a statement of fact, right?

Yeah.

I mean, I'm sitting here now, you know, talking about some parts of me that are

certainly embarrassed about and probably ashamed of.

I've let the shame part go.

It just happened, right?

I mean, I don't encourage anyone and I try to tell them, no, stay away from, don't do what I did.

But I used to beat myself up a lot with the shame part.

And I think that might be part of the healing, part of the getting out the other end.

Because the more and more solid you get in the resolve of the way you're going to really live your life and not that –

the kind of more the shame dissipates.