I actually wrote the song first as "well, it's 9 o'clock on a Saturday." That bit. Then I said, You know what? It needs some kind of an introduction to kind of set the mood and set the flavor. So I just played this kind of cocktail lounge thing, the hustle and bustle of waitresses going by - that kind of thing.

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

you may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.