00:01I was laying in bed one night, and I heard it, and I sat up, and I ran over to
00:05the piano.
00:08There's the mystery about Willie. When you get it, it's atomic. It's huge.
00:16He was Prince Valiant, D'Artagnan, and Baudelaire all rolled up into one.
00:21I felt like I had to photograph him.
00:26He was in this bubble of his own creation, and I'm not sure that that really fit with people's idea
00:32of what the rest of the bubble at CBGB's was like.
00:36You know, I have this whole scheme set up. You know, I know what I'm doing.
00:40I thought that when he came to Paris to record, he would make something really different.
00:46That's as good as music gets.
00:49Outrageously romantic in a completely non-romantic time.
00:52Well, we don't know how to market it. We've never heard anything like this before.
00:57My heart was broken.
00:59The rumors flew around.
01:02My love is like a storybook story.
01:06The only thing that'll cure an old junkie is a woman.
01:10Hey, Joe.
01:11Really? Why do you want to do this? It's been done, like, so many times.
01:15I don't know. I want to do this. I want to do this.
01:17So I don't know. The record took off.
01:18He's playing the Olympia in Paris, and he's selling it out, and he can't sell out a beer hall night
01:25here.
01:25Counting the 10 people I brought with me, there was about 30 people in the room.
01:30Then things started to go wrong.
01:32I hope someday it'll go away, but I always have this kind of hunger.
01:37The character Willie DeVille, he's hard to live with.
01:42You're standing in that wing before that man called your name to come on.
01:45You say, okay, this show is not going to happen.
01:48I'm not going to make it.
01:50But when the light hits and you start making that first step.
01:54As a tear fades away.
01:58The invention of Willie DeVille is a great work of art.
02:02A deep, hurting feeling which made a strong effect on you.
02:07All I have is my art.
02:09I'm going out blazing, both guns going.
02:12I don't want to go out quiet.
02:14I don't want to go out quiet.
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