INTERVIEWER
Do you think you’ve become nicer, or less angry, as a result of age?
HARRISON
I don’t think it’s a result of age because, if anything, people get angrier as they go along. I think it’s the result of a particularly long effort to make myself sane, at least on my own terms. As Ortega y Gasset said, “With no standard nothing has merit and man is capable of using even sublimity to degrade himself.” An artist has to evolve some standards, because nobody’s asking you to do this, and what you think of as your muse is really a couple dozen violent bacchantes.