"That's always been their therapy: to bring it together, at least for themselves, in their own environment and their own space. You know, like flowers and rainbows, beautiful people everywhere, and everything's nice."
Such are the thoughts of Guillermo Scott Herren, the prolific and eclectic musical mastermind behind pioneering electronic hip-hop unit Prefuse 73, as well as his numerous other musical projects, as he considers how artists make sense of the world. It's a nice image, but he knows nothing's that simple.
"Then you get out of the studio and, oh hell, everybody's losing jobs left and right, and it's just insanity."