So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.
I also remember the second band I was in ever. We were called Hybrid. We got a show at this local street fair, and we were playing on the back of a flatbed truck. There was an ad in the paper, and it said that 'Hybird' is playing. I was so mad.
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.