With Trouble in Shangri-La, I really felt that I was making a step away
from the past. The box set really was all about the past, and the Fleetwood Mac
reunion was all about the Rumours songs. I really felt a necessity to go into
the future. Because when you're in a great old band that still exists, you can
always live on that ... you can always be that. Or you can go ahead and do your
own thing along with doing that. |
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I've never thought about where I fit in pop culture. If I did, I'd get paranoid,
and then I'd be afraid, and I don't do well with fear. I have to believe people
will like this record, because it is my heart and soul, everything I've wanted
to say over the last 10 years. |
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The title song is written ~ Trouble in Shangri-La. It's
like Bella Donna; it's a definite concept album. It's about achieving Shangri-La
and not being able to handle it. |
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[On TISL] It's a rock and roll record. But there
are some quieter things. |
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If you're in show business or sports and you're famous, there is a price that
comes along with it. You get to have Shangri-La, but people just go crazy. So
it's not so wonderful as everybody thinks sometimes. [The title
song, tinged with the suggestion of a Himalayan chant, was written] in
the last few months of the O.J. and Nicole trial. It wasn't really about them,
it was just about how people make it to the top of their field and can't seem
to handle it. |
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The theme of this record is 'Trouble in Shangri-La': To achieve Shangri-La
and then not be able to handle it. So that is the element of Paradise, slips away. |
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I remember asking my dear friend Tom Petty to work with me on some |
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In many ways, this album brings me full circle. There are |
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