He'd come up with a few interesting things, but every time we got to the chorus lyric where it said, 'Like a virgin,' it just hit a brick wall - how can you write a tender ballad called 'Like a Virgin'? It just sounded ridiculous. He read those first lyrics and he sat down at the piano and tried to write a sensitive ballad to them. I took that lyric to Tom, he knew what I had gone through. I remember writing that lyric about feeling shiny and new - I made it through the wilderness, somehow I made it through - I made it through this very difficult time. I had been involved in a very emotionally difficult relationship that had finally ended and I had met somebody new. I remember writing the lyrics to 'Like a Virgin' while driving in a red pickup truck that I owned around our dusty desert vineyards. That band had just split up, so I was working out in the vineyards with my dad. I had a rock band called Billy Thermal and we were signed to Planet Records, Richard Perry's label. He was a grape grower in the Coachella Valley and our vineyards were in a little town called Thermal, California. In a Songfacts interview with Billy Steinberg, he told the story of this song: "My father was a farmer.
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