George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
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When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.
The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
I used to do my own taxes. You know how you buy that gigantic sheet at Staples, add up the restaurants, clothes, and taxis and glue your receipts into the book month by month? The more money I made, the more complicated things got.
I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
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