When IML was realeased they did a short interview with Jon and Richie called Box Talk on The Box music channel. I think I remember Richie saying, we tried It's My Life lots of times, but it really paid off on this album. I don't know what he means by that, but maybe he means they wrote it along time ago, and played it live a few times before. I dunno, I'll leave you lot to draw your own conclusions, but Richie definately said something like that.