I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.
It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.
People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”
But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.