I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

