Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.