I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I used to be a journalist.
I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.
I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.
I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
Very unique: I was a singer-songwriter-guitarist. Very unusual in the late Seventies to find a singer-songwriter, and on top of that, a guitarist.
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.