For me, and for most songwriters I know, writing songs is hard work. I don’t think that hard work is a struggle, though. That’s the difference. Working hard is a noble pursuit. I don’t know what else there is besides work. I talk about that a bit in my first book, too—that there was this notion that being in a rock band was a good thing to do if you didn’t want to work or get a real job. But all the rock bands you’ve heard of are the rock bands that’ve worked the hardest. I get that there are some areas of the music business where some bands were shafted, and there wasn’t a uniform fairness to
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