Think again. Here's a really cool interview with William Shatner who has recently released his first record in 36 years, his first since 'the Transformed Man'.
Check it out.
SHATNER: I’d sit down and write a thought that I’ve had or used in other writings or something that’s just occurred to me. I’ll give you two examples. I’ve been near people dying. Parents and loved ones have died in my lifetime. I’ve become fascinated and in the throes of the idea of death and what happens. But that’s too heavy to put into a musical thing. So, I wanted to do it in a lighter way and attempted to do that with “You’ll Have Time.” Another instance is when I was once on my way to Nashville and read a tabloid in an airplane and I see the term “has been” referring to me. I’ve always gone off on that term. It’s such a stupid thing used by these stupid people as a pejorative. The truth of the matter is somebody’s been somebody and like a flower, you spring out, flower and then ultimately, the petals fall off one way or another in some time or another. It happens to all living things. To call a flower a has been is as idiotic as calling a great artist who hasn’t done anything in the last while a has been. So, I went off on that and it became the title of the album.
I think Nichelle Nicholls described his autobiography as more a work that should be placed under 'science fiction'; 'The Transformed Man' has given rise to hours of mirth with my good friend Doc Musgrave. All the same, I think there's always been a serious artist in the man who played Captain James T. Kirk for all those years.
- Art Neuro
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