I Was a Scientist, This Was An Experiment (Interview)

Rivers: I don't remember the exact amounts of substances, but it was definitely tequila and Ritalin. I took early one morning, like six in the morning. I was... this was an experiment.

Pat: You took some tequila?

Rivers: Yeah? I had... what is it?

Brian: Oh, you had it exactly measured out too, for sure.

Rivers: Yeah cause I was a scientist. This is an experiment. This is an experiment in songwriting. So what happens when you wake up at six in the morning and take these substances and try to write a song? And the first morning I did it, I wrote Dope Nose, and it took about the length of the song, three minutes done. And then I was like, whoa, that's cool. So the next morning, I did the same experiment again and I wrote Hash Pipe, and there were two singles just like that. And then, for some reason, I lost interest in that particular method and moved on.

Pat: Well let's go back to that method. It's that simple.

Rivers: Well, that's the irony of searching for the one method to write a great song, and that's that whatever works once probably isn't going to work more than one, or two times more than that, and then you have to move on. So there's really no point in trying to find the one method.