"I wrote that on the guitar. Actually I wrote a lot of these songs on the guitar, which is half the reason for their musical simplicity. I was often dreaming about archers going into battle, and was painting that a lot. It felt like it was my soul or my unconscious mind trying to tell me to just chill out about the struggles that come in my life — that only struggle produce heroes. If you’re in a dark period, always look at it as something that will squeeze new, unknown greatness out of you. I wanted to write an anthem for this kind of sentiment and that’s when the chorus came to me ["struggle is right, what’s black is white"]. What you think is a low point is actually where you are shining the diamond, smashing it out of the rock."
"I wrote that on the guitar. Actually I wrote a lot of these songs on the guitar, which is half the reason for their musical simplicity. I was often dreaming about archers going into battle, and was painting that a lot. It felt like it was my soul or my unconscious mind trying to tell me to just chill out about the struggles that come in my life — that only struggle produce heroes. If you’re in a dark period, always look at it as something that will squeeze new, unknown greatness out of you. I wanted to write an anthem for this kind of sentiment and that’s when the chorus came to me ["struggle is right, what’s black is white"]. What you think is a low point is actually where you are shining the diamond, smashing it out of the rock."