As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

