any other. and he was human, like the rest of us, he was a flawed guy. there are things if you re reading or researching into his life that obviously are not pleasant and not positive. but why do you feel it s important to cover all of those aspects of who he was, and make that part of this latter account of his life? well, i am writing in these two volumes what i m trying to make the definitive biography of sinatra. this is the biography of a human being, as you say, and all of his contours and complexities. this was a musician, singer of level skills. he was a complicated guy with a lot of demons, terrible insecurities, about his size, about his italian-american-ness, about his oversensitivity. he was a difficult and complicated character, a lot of the time. the only time he was really happy was when he was singing well. and he was such a perfectionist