In a recent interview on the Sound of Young America, Ben Folds said:
I’m not so sure that I want it to be clear whether I’m being biographical or not. And that, in theory, would arrest people’s attentions a little bit to wonder whether it’s autobiographical — because people are interested in that, and they’re interested in reality shows….
Americans are. The English are aware that, as I always use as an example, that David Bowie didn’t go to Mars. But over here, Bruce Springsteen, if he says he’s done something, he better have that credibility.