Thread by @roaringrapids22

Johnny Depp: "Nick Tosches is still moving forward. He’s so brilliant. He’s one of the ballsiest, most poetic, & rage-filled writers, but he attacks with such calm. And wisdom. I always feel really lucky after I’ve read one of Tosches’s books, because it’s like you’ve had this...

experience with him. And it’s funny because hanging out with him is very much like being in one of his books. In the same way that it was with Hunter S. Thompson. When I hung out with Hunter for all those years, & lived in his basement in Woody Creek, Colorado, we were...

together a lot. I think I even referred to us as deviant bookends at one point. But you were always the other character in the book. He made you his counterpart. So, going to Cuba or being locked in a hotel room in San Francisco with him for five days, it was all true. We did...

end up with 17 grapefruits & 40 salt and pepper shakers, & club sandwiches packed to the ceiling. I mean madness. It’s great to have that be real. There are those who meet their heroes and go, 'Aw, f*ck.' And I’ve never had that, luckily. Starting with Iggy Pop, I was never...

disappointed by the people I’ve admired. And the choices I made, when I was in a position where it was do-or-die, were made with my heroes in mind. Like, 'Cry Baby' was a real important movie for me, to get away from being considered just a TV actor. There was no real...

transition to cinema back then. And then 'Scissorhands' was another step in the direction I wanted to go. Coming at it with the brain of a musician, all I kept thinking about back then is that you don’t want to disappoint those you’ve admired. I didn’t want to disappoint the...

people who had busted down doors before me." #JohnnyDepp

Johnny Depp reading 'In the hands of Dante' by Nick Tosches.

Nick Tosches: "Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being."