Jim O’Rourke
There was no special relation to music. It didn’t have anything to do with anybody I was working with. It just had to do with needing to go somewhere else. As a matter of fact, especially during that time I was working with such really great people that it was actually very difficult for me, because I didn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. I was having a hard time reconciling doing it and not wanting to offend people who had been good to me. It took a while, and I probably, as usual, overcompensated. I think everybody knew that I wanted to take off for Japan—they were probably all saying, “When’s he going to say it already?”
