"Actually, I consider it my best work. All my albums sell about five or six million copies, so 'The Soul Cages' wasn't exactly a flop. But in England it was attacked the most for being pretentious. The buzzword was gloomy, I think, or depressing. Maybe I'm a little defensive there, but it's very heartfelt, very serious. I couldn't get away from these ideas about my background, my father, death. I had to get them out of the way, almost as part of the grieving process, so I could then get on with writing songs that were fun. I did that with 'Ten Summoner's Tales,' which people seemed to like a lot better. But that's fine. A whole body of work should reflect many different moods, and this was a very dark period in my life. If I were to be honest, I would have to make a very dark record." (Interview in Mojo, 2/95)