the same time, that in itself is quite unusual. the hard thing was for those four people in the band, not myself, because they had to work together. it was right at the beginning of this tidal wave that we were looking at and going, "we're off to the races here. it's going great. i'd just come off a hit album, are we going to make it?" a lot of people thought for sure we would break up. from that moment on, there's no doubt, my responsibility, from just the way i am as a person, has very often been to always find a way to glue it together. and 