I think that we shouldn't be fixated all the time on the ups and downs of the weekly ratings, of the quarter-hour ratings.
I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

