 In "Night School", a show airing on MTV in 1982 that ran roughly a half-hour long, in which he answers questions posed by audience members, Billy Joel reveals that the pressure he was talking about in the song was something along the lines of writing pressure and pressure to provide.The PBS children's TV series "Sesame Street" and New York PBS affiliate WNET ("channel 13") are also mentioned in the first bridge, and the magazine "Time" is mentioned in the second.The single version removes the third verse (starting with "Don't ask for help, you're all alone") and the second bridge.