'China girl' keeps it real

"You've got happy, sad, angry, confused, and then all the 50,000 other colors that a human feels. And if one song is just about turquoise blue -- that can mean a lot of things; that [can mean the way] you feel about apples, and your brother, and your wooden bed from your childhood. And you would sing about that in one song, and people might say, `Oh, it's about her boyfriend.' But that's OK. It doesn't matter. What's important is that I capture that turquoise-blue thing. If I do my job right. I guess I look at it more like that. As kind of ... abstract."