From his website: "I’d written this as an angry rock thing – it was supposed to be sung really loud, and the piano part was very flashy and complicated. But when I went into the studio and started hammering it out, it just didn’t work. I realized I had to approach it in a completely different way, and I found that Fender Rhodes sound and sang it really quietly and added harmonies. And somehow it really captured the sweetness of sadness. It’s one of those happy/sad songs, or, as my dad would say, the “happy blues.” It does sound like an exclamatory, joyous thing, but the words are so negative, which is ultimately what made it work."
From his website: "I’d written this as an angry rock thing – it was supposed to be sung really loud, and the piano part was very flashy and complicated. But when I went into the studio and started hammering it out, it just didn’t work. I realized I had to approach it in a completely different way, and I found that Fender Rhodes sound and sang it really quietly and added harmonies. And somehow it really captured the sweetness of sadness. It’s one of those happy/sad songs, or, as my dad would say, the “happy blues.” It does sound like an exclamatory, joyous thing, but the words are so negative, which is ultimately what made it work."