i think it's more important to go to primary sources and find your own perspective. i've only ever written one historically based song and it took me two years to take a fragment from a radio interview...talk to anyone who would listen to find more...and a chance flip through the TV stations on the remote which ended up on a film documentary on the very character for whom I had been searching all those years. I'm proud of the song because the memory was so passionate andintense that it mutated into a lyric without thought.

of course...what do i know?