After a cloistered childhood, Rahul studied in America and Cambridge University, then worked under anassumedname (for security reasons) as a strategist in England at the consultancy firm Monitor.
From the rockabilly records he made under anassumedname, to the epic battlefields of his marriage - both personal and professional - to Tammy Wynette, and on through the period when whiskey and cocaine had such a hold on him that he seem to cancel more shows than he actually played.
The provenance of the quotation may not be so rich as you assumed, but the clarion call it sounds is so well wrought it does not require the support of an illustrious name.