And I think I’m used to a more — at least lately — impressionistic and experimental world of making stuff without really knowing what it is.
That was really helpful, to know what it was about and it would guide some of the choices we were making.
And I think that was, in her mind, very, very important. It doesn’t seem like, for this record at least, that she was inspired to write something until she really knew what it was about.
You may have a character in ‘Betty’ that’s also related to one in ‘Cardigan,’ for example.