You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.
Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.
I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.