Cameron Crowe

San Diego, it's like, it's surfers, you know, so...

They would just be partying early for the end of their tour a lot of times.

And so here's a kid that comes to the door with a notebook full of questions based on the music that nobody was really asking them about in the hands of an older journalist.

Here's some guy with an orange bag full of cassettes, like, ready to talk to you about your album Aqualung.

You know, they're like, get that kid in here.

Come on, we're bored.

Let him ask us those questions.

And so many of the bands...

were just nice to me because they were bored in San Diego.

And I got to tell you, going back and listening to a lot of those interviews because I kept everything, they really talked to me.

They really opened up.

And that informed the life I was lucky enough to have later as a writer and a director in movies because I knew how people spoke.

I transcribed all my interviews myself, so I knew that people don't talk elegantly

But they can pour their heart out in half sentences.

So it was really one big magic carpet ride of learning about people.

And it started early.

I'm a lucky guy.

Sadly, yes.

Absolutely.

Intermittently.