“He saw himself as someone who was going to be assassinated and he was totally obsessed with assassination. The Kennedy assassination, he was always talking on that subject and relating it to himself. But he wouldn’t take the simplest precaution to prevent himself from being assassinated. He would walk in and out of the Dakota without a bodyguard in the middle of a publicity campaign. Then, on the other hand, he would sit at the kitchen table and get stoned and worry that he was going to be shot.”
