“He doesn’t often give interviews but when he does he’s routinely described as ‘taciturn’ and ‘private’; his answers are ‘curt’ or ‘terse’. … [But] it transpires that Sam Shepard isn’t actually cold or taciturn or intimidating at all. Or at least the Sam Shepard I meet isn’t, because it turns out that there seem to be several different Shepards co-existing side by side.”