Harvey:

No, it does not apply to those who add music to their words. The reason poets die young is that the brilliance of their words stirs up great clouds of music in their systems, which being unable to get out, tend to condense and die unvented, thus clouding and cluttering the system irreversibly. You on the other hand, since you sing your songs as well as write them, can reasonably expect to live to 90 something, or if your genes are especially good, over 100.

A