Interview with KAOS2000 Magazine
K2K: In talking about song structuring… have you ever thought about just writing without any structure in mind?
JE: Well, yeah. In fairness, when you listen to things like "On The Inside," it's structured… I don't think it's possible to write a song that is not structured in some form. Even by being deconstructed, it's constructed in a different way. There's no such thing as an unconstructed song because that would just be musical anarchy. It would just be what you were describing about the Neil Young thing. But there's no way that you can go, "Well, let's do the chorus first." I mean, you can, because… like on "Make Love Like A Man" off of "Adrenalize," the chorus is the first thing you hear. But, it's still sections. Every song has sections, whether it would be Public Image, Ltd., the Clash or Faust, there are sections. When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy. It's the kind of thing that "Sugar, Sugar" was based on by the Archies, or the Partridge Family. Even "Crazy Horses" is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.