Mm.

So, um, and also I, I tend to, um, I mean, I'm a musician, so I, I'm a te- I tend to be a creature of the moment.

I'm either present now doing, like performing or writing, or I'm looking for the future.

You know, just I wanna know, I've, I, I usually am not interested in looking back.

So at the age of 55, to have the sort of, it's, it's a bit of a privilege to be able to have a space to look back and, and go, "All right.

That's how I, that's why I do what I do-"

Mm

... you know, I don't wanna live in a world where fascism's the, the main form of, uh, governance.

How cathartic is it writing a book like this? Were there any things in writing this book that you hadn't gone into that you're like, am I going to write about this?

I think...

One part of the book that was really eye-opening for me was going back post-General Electric, and I'd just rinse myself, basically, because we played about a zillion shows that year, and I was basically self-medicating.

Is that

when you were across America at that

point? Yeah, no, that was everywhere.

That was Europe, America, everywhere, man.

And I'd turned into a rock and roll machine.