Songfacts®:

• After a long absence from recording, Andrew W.K. released his album You're Not Alone in 2018, with a title track that veers away from his party mantra. It's a song of encouragement, letting his listeners know that he's right there with them as they move forward through the fears and doubts that permeate life. The song is imbued with his message of taking control of your destiny and following your dreams, but without the party backdrop he became famous for on songs like "Party Hard," "It's Time To Party" and "Party Til You Puke."
• Andrew W.K. is a deep thinker who often talks about battling his inner critic. When he talked about his song on The Strombo Show, he revealed a deeper meaning, saying, "It would take an extraordinary type of elevated mindset to remove yourself from yourself enough to be completely alone from your own thoughts, so for many people you can be your best friend or your worst enemy. There's two sides to just about everything."
• The lead single from the album is a song with a similar theme called "Music Is Worth Living For." Andrew W.K. by this point had written extensively about mental and emotional struggles, but not in a clinical way - he often explained how a weight of unhappiness is pulling on him.
  
  In 2014 he started writing an advice column for The Village Voice called "Ask Andrew W.K." which sounds like it would get very silly but was actually quite erudite and sensitive. One of his most popular columns was Do You Ever Get Depressed? He starts his answer with, "For nearly all of my life, I have struggled with severe depression."