I've got a great family. And I actually own a house. I never thought I'd own a house. In late August of this year, on a warm summer afternoon, the Everclear guys and myself killed a few hours talking about the impact of success, the new album, and how the Pixies, literally, changed Alexakis' life. Based on the lyrics to some of the new songs, it sounds like success has been a difficult thing to handle.
Success is easy to deal with.
This is something I've been doing most of my life and people are starting to get it now. Success isn't hard. The way other people deal with my success or our success, I think has been harder on us or on anyone than anything. I don't want people to think that we're complaining about success or poor little rich kids or something like that. I'm just making observations about it because it's weird.