 "I didn't realize it until now, but it's kind of funny, because the first song on our first album was 'Time to Pretend', which was about the imagined rock star scenario.So, [the song] 'It's Working' is like, "Yeah, we went out there and we did a lot of drugs, and it's not that great".Upon the release of "Congratulations", he has cited his literary influences as being "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman, The Ice Storm, The Anthology of French Poetry and authors such as Robert Anton Wilson and John Ashbery.