“”Lorelei” was really about the woman that became my wife [Susan Young – Ed]. The idea of co-habitation was still looked down upon in the old-fashioned world that I was born into. My parents weren’t happy about it, but they adapted. We moved in together and my better half decided we should make it legal, so we went to city hall and got married. That’s a pretty standard notion for a rock song: A man writing about a woman that he’s in love with.”James 'JY' Young (1347)

“Cocaine. Not that I ever had a problem with drugs at all. I tried it once or twice, but it seemed like a silly thing. If you’re having trouble sleeping already, don’t do cocaine!”James 'JY' Young (1347)

“It was kind of a comment on capitalism.”James 'JY' Young (1347)

“Heavy metal, in my aerospace engineering degree, I ran across in reading some books how different metals affected the human body. And then my wife was diagnosed with a very rare illness, which at one point they thought was heavy-metal poisoning, but was something else that is more rare called porphyria… it’s not the fear of being poor. But it’s when your body makes red blood cells in something we call the heme biosynthetic pathway. So, if there’s too much heavy metal in your diet, that can mess with your blood cells and ultimately lead to heavy-metal poisoning. I did love doing “Heavy Metal Poisoning,” because it resonated with something I’d read about how we are poisoning our soil by some of these heavy metals getting into our water stream from certain manufacturing processes. So, it’s sort of anti-Big Pharma. And my wife had a rare illness she was born with and it took a while to diagnose it. I have an aerospace engineering degree, and we had to take chemistry. It paid off in terms of helping diagnose my better half. We lost her just a couple of years ago, but she lived to be 70, and she saw the world with me and we had a great time. I miss her. But onward we must go.”James 'JY' Young (1347)