Music Quote by Jim Diamond

That line lands like a barbed joke from someone who has seen the romance of “tortured genius” up close and is done pretending it’s glamorous. Jim Diamond frames chaos as a production technique - “need to be on drugs,” “lots of suffering,” “alcohol abuse” - then punctures it with the casual, almost office-meeting phrasing of “Next time” and “I’m kinda picturing.” The contrast is the point: he’s describing self-destruction with the tone you’d use to plan a calendar invite.

The Jerry Lee Lewis reference does extra work. Mid-Seventies Lewis evokes a very specific rock mythos: a brilliant, volatile performer whose legend includes wreckage as much as music. By invoking a “session,” Diamond isn’t just thinking about an artist; he’s summoning an entire aesthetic of collapse - the idea that if you want authentic, dangerous rock, you have to stage the conditions for it. It’s an image of the studio as a pressure cooker where misery is treated like a seasoning.

Subtextually, the joke is defensive and accusatory at once. It reads like a swipe at bandmates, producers, or an industry culture that confuses dysfunction with depth. Diamond’s humor doesn’t absolve the behavior; it exposes how normalized it has become. Calling it out as a reenactment - a cosplay of a notorious era - suggests fatigue with recycled narratives: if suffering is required, maybe the “requirement” is the real problem.