"When I wrote the chorus to "Take a Picture" – 'Could you take my picture/’Cuz I won’t remember' – it was just after my friend was like, 'Do you remember anything you did last night?' And I was like, 'What are you talking about?' She said, “My god, you were throwing beer bottles out of a cab window at a cop car. Do you remember that?' And I said, 'Good lord, could you take my picture, ‘cuz I won’t remember.' And that line just kinda stuck. Weeks later, I had another drunken experience – being on a plane and being blacked out and not feeling good and taking my shirt off, half in and out of consciousness – and I’m in the back of a paddy wagon. I’m thinking, 'Oh my god, what is my dad gonna think of this s
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