I played I Like the Way This Is Going as a love letter to my then girlfriend, now wife, before having it played as we walked down the aisle.
I wrote that song for my girlfriend at the time and a few hours later we got in a big fight. Are you considering a follow-up to Things the Grandchildren Should Know? I want to, because so much crazy shit has happened since I finished that book. But now, spilling the beans is not such a good idea. She adored me and I always feel a little guilty when I sing it.
Did it begin beautifully and become so emptying? I was going through a breakup, it was a miserable Sunday afternoon and I just went down to the basement and wrote it. I love it because songs about some huge universal concept of life are very hard to come by.
There are very few words but he tells a story. In my own way I think Motherfucker is one of those songs. Which lyrics or words have helped you? That song was actually a letter I had written to my girlfriend at the time.
So her pet name for me was Fucker, in a loving way. Given that your father [physicist Hugh Everett III ] is the originator of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, do you feel that you are in exactly the right universe?
