It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.