After Jane's Addiction, it was time to do something completely different, and we were a little selfish about it. We did more musically from a real cerebral point of view. And so the answer is try to pay close attention to where you're at as an individual rather than as a creative artist, because if you're not careful, you'll change. What I want to do now is very different from what Deconstruction was. I mean, there will be elements that are similar, but it's kind of the opposite attack that I'll be coming from, of wanting things to stay the same and be repetitive.
Deconstruction is about distinctive individual voices and sounds.
Alternative music has become the same thing as pop music. It was popular music. And then the word just became pop and now pop means something else. It's no longer the original meaning of the term, and the same thing is true for alternative music. We're still close enough to it that we don't read it as easily, but alternative music, by definition, can't be what you hear on the radio all the time.