People believe their own bullshit, these myths, this Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin thing, and that's so gone. So you've carved out a wonderful little plateau for yourself. You have to, these days. You need a song that mentions a car and a song that mentions a girl's name or a girl's phone number. And I looked at him and thought, somebody call Robert Altman right now, and tell him that he's a documentarian.
People really say things like that.
This guy was buying me really expensive Chinese food, and I was just thinking, OK, this is what it's all about. And we don't want to wait. What happened with my friends is, the record company pays your rent for nine months. For nine months you walk around thinking you're a rock star. They put you up on some crappy tour with some bands you have nothing in common with, and then they take two years to release the record.