The lyric, "I believe in you, like a virgin, you're Madonna. We haven't gone because we have kids and we wanna go together, so we'll wait until our kids grow up. ( laughs) So that's the idea of "Hey Soul Sister." So the whole song was about Burning Man, and then we shot a video that had nothing to do with it. That was like two hours - I wrote it with some friends in New York, and I had never been to Burning Man but everyone around me was going to Burning Man, and that song made me think of my wife dancing around this burning man. But we didn't change any of them, and I'm really grateful for that. "Soy latte" was definitely something that my producer wanted to get rid of, "fried chicken" my record company wanted to get rid of, and there may have been one other lyric that somebody wanted to change. I got heat about a few lyrics in that song from either my record company or the guy producing the track. PM: You know, I wasn't even drinking coffee at the time! But everybody in my band drank lattes and soy lattes, so it just was like a potentially great realistic portion of the song. In the song you sing, "the best soy latte that you ever had." Was there an actual best latte? PM: I wrote almost the whole thing in about a half hour, and then the next night when I was going to bed I went and finished it so that took about 20 minutes - less than an hour. It'd be sweet if I could write another "Drops of Jupiter." If any of you guys are holding hit songs, I'd love to get in on it. Is that how songs come to you in general, through dreams and experiences? So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me. PM: My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. It's a story about my mother coming back after like swimming through the planets and finding her way through the universe, and coming back to tell me that heaven was overrated and love this life, you know? That's what that was about. I fell asleep and woke up with this song in my head and went downstairs and wrote it all out and sang it into a Dictaphone.
Pat Monahan: "Drops of Jupiter" was written just after my mom had passed away, so the song came to me in a dream, literally.
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