- To say that I knew that
it was gonna be a hit song
would be silly, because you never know.
♪ Spent 24 hours ♪
♪ I need more hours with you ♪
I think that once I saw the video
come together is when I really knew.
With the powerful imagery that video
presented, along with the song
and sort of the dual
meaning the lyrics had,
I felt like it was just a special moment
that we kind of happened upon.
♪ I need a girl like you, yeah yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
I knew to some degree
it would be successful.
I did not know the degree
to which it would be this successful.
There's some things that you do
you know you feel proud of regardless,
and that sometimes that feeling,
I believe, energetically
can contribute to even more success.
But you can't say you know,
'cause you just don't.
And you sound like a dick
when you say that anyway.
Yeah, I knew.
Yeah, I knew, totally, I knew.
I knew.
'Cause it's easy to fuckin'
say you knew when it is.
It would be harder for me to sit here
if the song had flopped
and I was fuckin' wrong.
But I wasn't, it's just
dishonest to say I knew.
But yeah, I knew.
♪ Not too long ago I was
dancing for dollars ♪
♪ Know it's really real if
I let you meet my mama ♪
♪ You don't want a girl
like me, I'm too crazy ♪
♪ But every other girl
you meet is fugazi ♪
Strength, power.
She was in the honeymoon
period of her moment.
She was just beginning
to be that female artist
everyone was talking about, and I thought
it was an important thing
for her to be involved,
'cause I knew she would
have an interesting take
on what was being said, and
she would do it in a way
that you wouldn't
necessarily have thought of.
I said, this is about women.
Make this about women,
make this about support,
make this about strength, make this about
owning who you are.
And I just said, go for it.
She said, okay.
She said, alright.
♪ I need you right here
'cause every time you're far ♪
♪ I play with this kitty like
you play with your guitar ♪
♪ 'Cause girls like you run
around with guys like me ♪
♪ 'Til sundown when I come through ♪
♪ I need a girl like you, yeah yeah ♪
I could give you a list of 10 songs
that I wanted to become successful
that never became anything.
There will always be examples
of how it didn't work out,
and they were letdowns,
but it makes the success
of a song like this that much sweeter,
'cause you know how hard it is.
So yeah, fuckin' A right
I'm excited about that.
To me, that's one of the coolest things
as a songwriter you can experience
is your song being up at the top,
especially for this long,
which never is to be expected.
