out for a long time, and my loyalties lie in the
family we have with the people that’ve been
with us a while. I guess I’m not beholden to
Time-Warner but I’m beholden to a larger
machine. It is still far more intimate than
it was, I was at the end of the gilded chain
there for a while. Fortunately so, I don’t want
to sound ungrateful. We really did, I think we
were the last class of the big music business,
we rode the last wave of when record sales
were regularly five to ten million records, and
that was astonishing to be part of that music
business. Even though we never had that kind
of sales, the song itself goes and goes and goes
in a way that I would never have dreamed.
The success we had during the period of time
when we released it seems minimal compared
to the marathon that song has run during the
following, however many, almost 17 year ̸