The band Paul Simon called “the best time of my life”Paul Simon has always shot straight whenever he wrote any of his songs. But even if Simon took a lot of inspiration from the rougher parts of his life, he wasn’t shy about talking about the moments where nothing could possibly go wrong, either. In fact, that’s half the reason why Simon had a problem with his own singing a lot of the time. If anything, it’s a lost art in the world of songwriting, and there aren’t many people who were doing what Simon could do back in the day. That doesn’t mean that Simon necessarily likes everything that he made around that time.