I was half expecting to be lynched, but was greeted with great bonhomie. I was very happy and surprised, and they invited me to the CMA in Nashville. But Toby Keith recorded ‘I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying’, my divorce song, and it got to like, number one in the country charts. “Wonderful! You know, I’m an English guy country songs in my hands are always going to have some sort of reverential irony. He’s a very interesting man, David.”Īnother point of note: Johnny Cash recorded ‘I Hung My Head’ on American IV: The Man Comes Around.
Lynch I hadn’t seen for a while but I picked it up again with him last year, we spent some time together at Cannes and I saw him last month actually for a seminar about film-making. “Terry’s my neighbour so I see quite a bit of him. “Both extremely eccentric men, very, very interesting men spiritually and politically,” he observes. Few of us can count among our extracurricular activities appearances in films by David Lynch and Terry Gilliam. But generally people have responded well and been surprised.”īesides, even if you’ve never bought a Sting record, you have to admit he’s had an interesting life. “And I think the only negative review I’ve had so far was Celebrity Weekly or something (saying) there wasn’t enough celebrities in it, which is a bit like Gardener’s Weekly saying there’s not enough shrubbery in it! That made me laugh. I wanted to write about a real person in a real town, a real family.
“And I’d written about 10,000 words about the first experience in the book, sent it to some publishers and they all got excited that I knew where a gerund would go in a sentence (laughs), and I chose the publishers who agreed to the conditions that I didn’t want my photographs in the book, and I didn’t want to write about fame. I thought, ‘My life’s actually much more interesting than that and I could probably do a better job myself’ – he said smugly! I knew there was a couple in the pipeline, and my manager said to me, ‘Y’know, the only way you will stop this happening to you is to do it yourself.’ I kind of winced at the idea, but then I just started writing.
“Probably a bad reason, in that there’d been a few biographies written about me by people who’d never met me, and I’d start reading them and I’d think it was just gleaned from the tabloids, and it really wasn’t reflecting my life.
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