Pop Song 591 of 1000 'I Am... I Said' Neil Diamond 1971

Pop Song 591 of 1000 'I Am... I Said' Neil Diamond 1971

Official MV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TYesac3Hmw
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"I Am... I Said", which took Diamond four months to compose,[3] is one of his most intensely personal efforts, making reference to both Los Angeles and New York City.[5] Diamond told Mojo magazine in July 2008 that the song came from a time he spent in therapy in Los Angeles. He said:
It was consciously an attempt on my part to express what my dreams were about, what my aspirations were about and what I was about. And without any question, it came from my sessions with the analyst.[6]
In the same month, he told Q that the song was written "to find [him]self" and added, "It's a tough thing for me to gather myself after singing that song."
But Diamond has also given another inspiration for this song: an unsuccessful tryout for a movie about the life and death of the comedian Lenny Bruce. Author David Wild interviewed Diamond for a 2008 book and he discussed how his efforts to channel Lenny Bruce evoked such intense emotions that it led him to spend some time in therapy