March 5, 2008, 8:01 am - tyranntyrann
Well yes, maybe sentimentality IS a form of death in this context, anyway you feel that it is and it’s your music so it’s your call, but I believe that sentimentality sometimes can be good. As a musician you often take inspiration from old things and make new things of it, don’t you? I know I do. So why can’t you take your own old stuff and make new things of it? But maybe that’s not what you meant. Maybe you meant that you don’t like playing your old songs? Because when you are a big star and playing stuff just because the audience wants it, it is a little bit like doing a cover of your own songs. And I respect that, although I think we all have things to learn of our former selves. And just for the record! I love Zeitgeist and I think all the Smashing Pumpkins records has been very different from each other. In a good way. It is good that you are still exploring.