“It was Vito, Carl Franzoni, Sue, Beatle Bob, Bryan Maclean and me…people would come to Ben Frank’s to hang out with us after we played shows.”

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.

When LOVE played the still hipper Whisky A Go-Go, further west along Sunset, Arthur Lee claims they ‘started the whole hippy thing’ in tandem with an in-crowd of freaks led by aging beatnik sculptor Vito Paulekas.

Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.

After ‘Game of Thrones,’ having a character like that, that’s like the pinnacle of your career.