A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.