The delay between albums was also a response to the times, he said. "There was an honest-to-God revolution in the 1960s, or what was called the 1960s, though it began before then," he said. "The world's a lot better place for it. And we've been living for the past 30 years through a classic Maoist counterrevolution, trying to undo and take us back to some time in the past. But the counterrevolution has run out of gas, literally."
"I felt the brick wall crumble that we've all been facing, and I felt freedom rushing in on me," he added. "Freedom with my instrument, freedom with my voice, freedom with my words." He sequestered himself for two weeks in Northern California, near Big Sur, and "I wrote 200 pages of stuff, just solid," he said. "There was no effort whatsoever, no force. One of the things I've learned is that if you cooperate with the universe it will cooperate with you."
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