Did the movie Dead Poets Society influence the song A Change of Seasons?
MP: No. The whole Carpe Diem thing I wrote didn’t come from the movie. I was in school the day my mom died and the teacher was giving a lesson on how you should appreciate life, and gave us a whole thing about Carpe Diem and then I went home and gave my mom a big kiss and a hug goodbye, and then she ended up getting killed that night. Anyway, it’s a very, long, in-depth, pretty intense story. When I saw Dead Poet’s Society I wanted to just pull a lot of those quotes and use them as samples. Actually, the main inspiration for the lyrics was another Robin Williams movie, The World According to Garp. That’s totally dealing with the cycles of life.
