Americans are funny people: first you shock them, then they put you in a museum.
I see songwriting as having to do with experience, and the more you've experienced, the better it is. But it has to be tempered, and you just must let your imagination run.
Well, don't we all feel like jumping to the end of the world sometimes?
I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.
Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.
I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.