Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I always imagine later on these songs I could've played with a band, but it never worked out that way.
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
I remember starting out and covering songs.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
'Darkness on the Edge of Town' came out of a huge body of work that had tons of very happy songs.
Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.
There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.