'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.
Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.
Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.
Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.