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.
Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.
The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.