Yet how can you find new ways to turn this shit sideways and make it kind of unrecognizable before it gets pretentious and lame. So in a lot of ways, it's still like Homemade Blood , in that I still have the same rules and demons. Although The Hurting Business did phenomenally well in relation to Prophet's previous work, he was careful not to get too wrapped up in the numbers game. That kind of thing is hard to gauge anything by. With sales, it's hard to use as any kind of value system.
Territories run hot and cold, distributors run hot and cold.
If you think about it enough, and start taking all that information and trying to use it to build some kind of case for something, you'll just go crazy. Although the album was ultimately accepted within his somewhat rabid fan base, there have been holdouts along the way, something that Prophet fully expected. Stephie and I were just emotionally spent, and we hadn't had any time to recharge our batteries, because we immediately went to tour Europe for nine weeks, and I was up to my neck in all that. Then we got some kind of hateful e-mails. I just tried to ignore it, but it was kind of fun.