I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.
The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.
Crowds respond to anthemic choruses.
When I moved to L.A., I was penniless, absolutely beyond broke and in debt up to my eyeballs.
I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.
There is maybe a cynicism because of my past as a writer.