When I first started writing songs I thought music could be shaped and molded any way you wanted. Turns out that music has strict rules and is very unforgiving and your lyrics, no matter how you sing them, have to fit into that little box where the music lives and obey the rules. I learned this sitting down with a friend who lived in Laurel Canyon in the sixties and was sitting at the table with Canned Heat when they signed their first recording contract. He looked at me and said, "The problem with your song is you've got too many words. Go ahead and sing what you've got there...hold it, wait! I just ran out of music and you're still singing". I changed the wording of the song and he said "Now that will work". My friend, well he said every time he thought his ship was going to come in, it sank.