Ted Maloney
2011-05-18 02:55:35 UTC
Pete's Blog
17th May, 2011
STATEMENT ABOUT MY FORTHCOMING MEMOIRS
This book is not a vanity for me. It is an essential rite of passage.
I know I am good at what I do as a performer and composer, but since
my early teens I have been happiest when writing. Writing is my
principal daily occupation. Rock ‘n’ roll is a tough career, however
cynically or comically it is portrayed by its detractors. I am lucky
to be alive and to have such a crazy story to tell, full of wild
adventures and creative machinations. I am happy that I am able to
write my book myself, in my own ‘voice’ that many readers will be
hearing for the first time. I am delighted to be working again with my
agent Ed Victor, and happy to be published by Harper Collins, a
company whose editors and list I have always greatly admired.
I am not my favorite subject, that will always be art and music, but
whenever I write about my life and work I learn something. So the year
ahead spent writing will also trigger the last vital bit of ‘growing
up’ required by the now pensionable fellow who once wrote I hope I die
before I get old. I want to write a book that is enjoyable to read,
but above all, I want it to be honest.
17th May, 2011
STATEMENT ABOUT MY FORTHCOMING MEMOIRS
This book is not a vanity for me. It is an essential rite of passage.
I know I am good at what I do as a performer and composer, but since
my early teens I have been happiest when writing. Writing is my
principal daily occupation. Rock ‘n’ roll is a tough career, however
cynically or comically it is portrayed by its detractors. I am lucky
to be alive and to have such a crazy story to tell, full of wild
adventures and creative machinations. I am happy that I am able to
write my book myself, in my own ‘voice’ that many readers will be
hearing for the first time. I am delighted to be working again with my
agent Ed Victor, and happy to be published by Harper Collins, a
company whose editors and list I have always greatly admired.
I am not my favorite subject, that will always be art and music, but
whenever I write about my life and work I learn something. So the year
ahead spent writing will also trigger the last vital bit of ‘growing
up’ required by the now pensionable fellow who once wrote I hope I die
before I get old. I want to write a book that is enjoyable to read,
but above all, I want it to be honest.