If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list. . . Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest.
I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L. A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven. '" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying. "