These days, I don't have time for hard cases. We have to write the song in 25 minutes, so if it takes 34 minutes, it's like, "Oh no, it took FOREVER." I love Richard. Richard had a good line about the Speed of Sound, and I thought, how can we show that? That's why I asked Pete Frampton about doing a little talkbox for me – something he and Joe Walsh both know a lot about. I was writing with Richard Marx and he said, "I want to do something raucous", because usually we do something more ballady. I'd love someone with a big, great voice like Celine Dion to sing this song because I love it and it's important to me. And yes, we have some history and chemistry. For me, he's still the most melodic, incredible bass player. I really wanted Paul to play bass on this track because it's an important track to me because of the expression to Barbara. We're still getting to know each other and loving it. We've been together 37 years, You have ups-and-downs. Surviving Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney collaborated on a new track.
But the expression of the song does speak to the times we are in now. And in every interview, I am not political – I'm about Peace & Love. Pete came to the house, and he had that line about things these days being, "Laughable/If it wasn't sad." Pete wanted this song to get a little more political, and I thought it was political enough. This is the first song that I've written with Peter Frampton. Real rock'n'roll and screams just seem to go together. I didn't ask Paul or others on this song to scream – they just did it like Paul, Edgar Winter and Joe Walsh at the end. Yes, that is Paul McCartney on bass and on screams too. But we realised Willie doesn't own that line, and our road trip is a lot more rocking. We got a bit crazed in the beginning thinking that there's already Willie Nelson – who we love – singing his On the Road Again. Steve Lukather is Mr Vitality when he's rocking, and that's how we got this rocker going.
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