Steffens: “Bob was phenomenally generous. He never owned his own home, but he bought dozens of homes for other people, his band members, his baby mothers, his relatives, his lawyer. He gave away almost all the money he made during his lifetime, and his business manager, Colin Leslie, who had to sign the checks or they weren’t valid, told me that he thought Bob supported monthly somewhere around 6,000 people.”
Steffens: “He was always the first guy on the bus and the last guy to go to bed at night and the first guy to wake up in the morning. He probably only slept three or four hours a night and just wanted everything to be absolutely professional and perfect.”
Steffens:“He was also a prophet; so many things he predicted came true. When he was 24, he was living in Delaware in that Woodstock summer of ’69 and he told some young men that he was going to die at age 36, and he did. The fact that he knew that kind of explains the incredible activities of the last four years of his life, after he was shot. He never stopped. It was constant creation.”
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