I caught up with him on tour, somewhere in the middle of the information highway. Anger and frustration, I feel, become more tiresome with age.
Anger can still come in handy as an inspirational tool for songwriting, but frustration is useless.
Always has been, really. I know you're not one to compromise vision or lyrics. For all the lovely cynical stuff you became known for, Mona Lisa's Sister has a bluntness both in terms of lyricism and production you had never had before. Mona Lisa's Sister was a breakthrough in terms of production values, certainly. But you may have noticed that I did not carry it through to the following album, Human Soul .