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