songwriter, came through the troubadour, jackson brown, j.d., henley and frey, linda ronstadt, joni mitchellsing themselves. >> is it difficult to reveal it constantly to so many people? why do you do this? >> i feel an obligation to myself and to people to try and share myself. maybe as honestly as i can. ♪ i left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ well i hit the rowdy road and many kinds i met there ♪ ♪ many stories told me all the ways to get there ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ so on and on i go ♪ the seconds tick the time out there's so much left to know ♪ ♪ while i'm on the road to find out ♪ >> everyone was just trying to do whatever came into their head. >> in the early days paul and i we wanted to be the king of england from england. they were very big those days. >> we had no idea who the people were, the mysterious mr. king was. who had written all these songs, chains the beatles did, i'm into something good, which is part of the british invasion. we did discover this remarkable woman, carole king. >> carole king made the transition from being behind-the-scenes woman to a star i