I carry around in my head a very definite idea of what the group should represent, what the group does. But within that, it's like we can do anything. So that whole notion, to answer a question of why we're doing something a certain way, is peculiar. The Beatles, I don't think, had to contend with the same kind of media that we have to in Britain. They achieved a sort of distance, a respect.
English journalists are never really sure they're questioning the right thing.
Being an English group today, we've had some really tough stick from the English media, who don't applaud longevity at all, unlike those days. They just kind of think we should crawl away and die somewhere. The bands they like best are the ones that haven't even made any records, which is disgusting to me. The thing is, I admit, a lot of times it's true. There are a lot of people who continue to make records who shouldn't.