“I’ve had to put it on hold. I had a rough draft that I had done with some ghostwriters. Honestly, at the end of the day it was flat, it lacked emotion, it lacked my words, so I decided, at the risk of losing the book deal, I just couldn’t put it out,” said Ness, ever the perfectionist. “You know, when I figure out how to get eight days out of a week, I’m gonna finish that. But right now, the record is the priority.”