I've had people who know me very well personally (friends, family members, etc.), upon reading something I'd written, say things like, "That never happened to you." Or, "When did you ever do that?" It's as if I was being totally fraudulent, dishonest or delusional. For me, only about 3% of any lyric I write is close to being autobiographical.


If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding.