It's a good question, how people are redeemed by how they ended, and their ends become part of the meaning of their lives. I do wonder what the Vegas era has done for my legacy; the gut reaction is that it's turned me farcical, but I think, upon reflection, it probably added nuance and timbre to it. A tragedy more than a farce. Assassination presumably would have moved it elsewhere.

My current favorite example for this is Basquiat. We'll never know what Untitled sells for minus the overdose, but it ain't $100m.