Be Someone's Light When They

'in Utero' Was The First Time I'd Made An Album That Reached Into The Dark Side. I Remember The Conflict And The Uncertainty. I Remember All Those Things When I Hear 'pennyroyal Tea.'

I Think Maybe What Happened Was The Convenience Of Technology Overshadowed The Experience Of Holding An Album In Your Hands, And Sitting On Your Bedroom Floor, And Staring At A Picture Of John Lennon Or Gene Simmons Or Johnny Rotten. That Tangible Experience Can Sometimes Become An Even More Emotional Experience, Because It's Really Happening.

I Mean, I Never Liked Being Told What To Do. It's One Of The Reasons I Dropped Out Of School.

The Late '60s And The '70s, A Lot Of This Really Beautiful Equipment Was Being Made And Installed Into Studios Around The World And The Neve Boards Were Considered Like The Cadillacs Of Recording Consoles. They're These Really Big, Behemoth-looking Recording Desks; They Kind Of Look Like They're From The Enterprise In Star Trek Or Something Like That. They're Like A Grayish Color, Sort Of Like An Old Army Tank With Lots Of Knobs, And To Any Studio Geek Or Gear Enthusiast It's Like The Coolest Toy In The World.

When You're Sequencing A Record, You Want The Listener To Stick With It From Beginning To End, And In Order To Do That, You Really Have To Map Out The Journey From The First Song To The Last.