Pat Monahan

And at the time, we had recorded an album that was called Something More.

And the president at the time was like, you don't have a first single.

And a first single at that time was like a lead off single that would get you excited about the other singles, perhaps.

But it had to be a hit.

Right.

We didn't have any of those.

And my mother had passed away.

And so I was not in a good place to write the thing that they were looking for.

And I worked for three months.

And one night I fell asleep and woke up with this dream, basically, now that she's back in the atmosphere.

And it was my mother basically saying, you don't have to worry about me.

Like, go do your thing.

I can swim through the planets and come back here with drops of Jupiter in my hair if I want.

And then I turned that into a love story and it took 15 minutes.

Then I went to New York with a demo of it because the record president was about to tell me, you got to go write songs with class songwriters, which was not a part of the rule in my band at the time.

It was like, we can only write together, which was not a good rule and it kept us from being better.

And before he told me anything, I handed him a disc at the time and said, this is probably nothing.

I had a dream, but here's something I just wrote.

And by the time it went, plain old Jane told a story about him, he just goes...

And then it was at a time when Almost Famous was out.