People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.