I Made A Pact With Myself A

It's A Different World Now: Stars Come And Go Quickly, And There Are So Many Of Them. I Read A Statistic That All The Record Companies Combined Used To Put Out Around 3,000 Albums In A Year. Now They Put Out Something Like 30,000!

For Days On End, I Would Hardly Speak, And When I Did Only The Vilest Sort Of Gibberish Would Spout Forth. I Became Morose And Fat. Unapproachable, Except When Eating - And Then Only By Waiters.

My Parents Used To Park Us Kids At The Public Library In Downtown Honolulu Every Saturday. They'd Leave Us There At 8 A.m. And Pick Us Up At 4 P.m. - So Between Those Hours, You'd Better Find Something To Do! I Sat Upstairs In The Picture Room And Went Through Opera, Ballet, And Theater Books. I Loved The Photographs Of People Wearing Elaborate Makeup And Costumes - They Really Pulled At Me Inside. I Was In That Library Every Week For Years, Until I Was About 13. I Had A Rich Interior Life, Because I Didn't Have Much Of A Social Life.

It's Important That You All Agree On What The Parameters Are And What You Can Accomplish - And Not Get Pissed Off Or Beat Yourself Up For What You Can't Accomplish.

I Sold My Soul To Rock 'n' Roll.