Things tend to look like that when you take the most damning possible statement out of tens of thousands of documents that you received in discovery!

That's the problem. When these statements come up in court documents, they are never put in context. You're just left up on the stand mumbling about how everyone else is misinterpreting your words.

What context do you think might explain this away, given the content?

What if, right before he wrote that, he said "here's me pretending to be the evil guy the music execs think I am."

:-)

That's because people don't usually go out of their way to produce damning evidence. Damning evidence is an accident, that's why you don't find much of it, even among "tens of thousands of documents." Which is why careful scrutiny of discovery documents is important in any legal case.