The Importance of Cover Songs

When it's really well done, the fact that it's from somebody else just dissolves and you're identifying with something that somebody else wrote. Icedee got in so much trouble for cop killer, his response was, that was a character. And what was fascinating to me was no one could accept that he was writing in character. Whereas with you, it was clear that you weren't writing as a psycho killer. You can only be literal in your music. For people who are on our side of the fence, we will allow them much greater license.