We started off on a walk that we thought was 10 miles and it was a hundred miles. We didn't know that. We always thought we were gonna quit. Now that we did it, it really gave us this new tolerance for that sort of work. You know, you sit in a recording studio with people, it's the most boring thing you can do.
People sometimes think that there's fireworks going off and drugs and naked women.
Picture five guys at a table, and they're putting together one of these insanely complex ten-thousand piece jigsaw puzzles, and they're doing that for a year. That's what you do. Our tolerance after making Zaireeka got to the point where we understood that this is what making records is, that it's long and it's boring, but you have to fight through the boredom and come up with millions of ideas and hope that some of them are good. I think The Soft Bulletin sort of shows that we're prepared to run a hundred miles now, and we only have to run ten. I think the two are totally connected.