The reasons, other than hunger, to eat in your car is to down it before the item gets cold, melts or because you're running late for something and it's an eat now or go without for an exceedingly long length of time.
He's definitely had some stuff in his life, dyslexia, friend River Phoenix od death, his kid being stillborn leading a divorce, his ex killed in a car accident, sister having leukemia...
Probably try to do the "unseen observer" bit, like the old TV show "You Are There" and find out things that people have wondered about or disputed as being true - just for my own edification.
Italian Kung Fu. One of my former bosses married an Italian & picked up the gestures. She nearly clocked me a couple of times in team meetings when I sat next to her.
Former co-worker, who was 2nd Gen Italian-American told me that when she was born, a grandfather had recently passed on & then 2 successive uncles died. She grew up thinking it was normal for Italian Women to only wear black all the time.
Yeah, he twisted a lot of stuff. In "Honey Pie" they were supposed to be imploring him to "sail across the Atlantic, to be where you belong". Flippin' nutjob.