Never be late. When you're late, what you're saying is that your time is more important than the other person's time. That's pretty egotistical.
Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s.
Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm.
God gives you a life and says, 'Okay, what are you going to do with it?'
I ain't no veggie, like my flesh to the bone, alive and licking on your ice cream cone.
The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easygoing sound and strangle the life out of it.