:55:27
He fluctuated so fast from great joy
into intense unhappiness.
:55:33
I mean, suicidal, not interested in life,
completely disinterested in his body.
:55:39
He wanted to tear off his body, you know.
And he did.
:55:43
But he glorified bodies and flesh
and human beings...
:55:46
...and women and children and all that.
:55:48
Can you tell some nights
you're just not making it at all?
:55:51
- Ever want to walk off?
- That's why I hate compliments.
:55:54
Compliments are so embarrassing
sometimes, 'cause you know the truth.
:55:58
Sometimes people don't really
try to understand.
:56:01
It's like a circus that might come to town.
"Wow, watch that."
:56:04
Soon as they fade away,
they go on to feed upon the next thing.
:56:08
But it's all right. It's part of life.
I'm diggin' it myself.
:56:12
You're considered one of the best
guitar players in the world.
:56:17
But Jimi was very, very self-conscious.
:56:19
He came in and said, "How's my hat?
How does my hat look?"
:56:23
We said, "Your hat looks all right."
:56:25
He said, "You think they'll mind."
:56:27
Yeah, "You think 'they'll' mind..."
:56:30
Always worryin' about what...
:56:32
When I say "we", what the
other black people thought.
:56:35
About his music.
:56:36
Yeah, about his music, and himself,
and propaganda that they heard.
:56:40
And a lot of it was true,
but he was experiencing things.
:56:43
He was goin' through a lot of changes.
:56:45
He was a black man
in a white man's world.
:56:47
I mean, it's an extraordinary sort
of uptight, white, hetero set...
:56:52
...the rock-and-roll set.
They're all so aggressively normal...
:56:56
...with their wives, children, houses,
and Jimi doesn't belong to that.