Andy Warhol’s original idea was to make paintings of dollar bills so I thought it would be appropriate to make music out of money.  Consequently you hear a lot of money noise in the background.  You know it’s funny, nowadays music may sound more like money than you think.  Sometimes it seems to me that people have been subliminally trained to appreciate the most expensive recordings.  

    The lyrics of this song may seem kind of random but they stem from my thoughts and reflections of the day.  A lot of those thoughts have to do with the idea that the true value in art like this is in the meaning that is conveyed and also how it is conveyed.  That’s why I ask “who told you what it means?”  Andy Warhol didn’t just make the art, he defined it’s meaning and he had to have the right attitude to be taken seriously.  I was watching a video of an interview with Truman Capote as well today and for some reason I was struck by the tone of arrogance that somehow seems so integral to the expression of new perspectives characteristic of this time period.  

    The exhibition of this artwork ended the day before Marilynn Monroe’s death.  According to the article, Marilynn, Campbell’s Soup Cans and  Money were all subjects of Andy Warhol’s artwork and that’s why they all ended up as parts of my song.