You can make yourself feel better about yourself if you project your shadow side, if you project your own potential for evil onto someone else. By annihilating them and, therefore, your shadow, you bring yourself into some state of purity or reformation.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.
I'm sure every song has some kind of undertone of what I was going through with Chris. It was my life.