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"life: a nice deal "
"....But he has what Browne calls "the success that matters: this very loyal following of people who truly get him. There's no greater success than being loved and admired for what you really do."
Zevon insists that for him, ambition was always about "getting the third line of the second verse right." Now, when asked if he has achieved everything he ever wanted, he says, "Yes," then walks over to his shoulder bag and pulls out the evidence: photographs of Jordan and Ariel. "Take a look at these pictures, and you will inevitably ask yourself, 'How did this fuckwad do this?' They're a very fine pair. They couldn't be more wonderful toward all this in every way.
"I also look back and think, 'I had this crazy idea that I wanted to be a pop star.' And in a way, I achieved it. I wanted to write a certain kind of song, and I did."
"He's being so accepting," Calderon says in amazement. "For the first few days, I was going, 'Why him, after all this?' I've seen other people go to old age drinking and smoking. But he just says, 'I've done this and come back. I was a good father. How poetic is all this?' "
Zevon's impulse now, in his final songs, is to send messages to those he is leaving behind. "If I can let someone know what I felt about them," he says, putting the irony to one side, "that's more important than passing off some bullshit insight I've had about living on the planet."......
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