Jupiter Crash

from Access magazine, 1996:

Q: Let me quote from your new song "Jupiter Crash": "Was that the Jupiter show? / It wasn't quite what I'd hoped for you know / Drawn too close and gone in a flash." Your´re probably going to hit me, but is "Jupiter Crash" about premature ejaculation?

A: Er... (smile)... it´s about, let´s say, unsatisfactory sexual experience... not necessarily premature ejaculation. But it´s about more than that. It´s about expectations. When I meet people they often think I´m going to be something more than human... in all respects (smile).
Like when we recorded here in Bath, people come up to the house and they´re really friendly, but you can see they want something. And that can be taken to extremes, and sometimes people get what they want and then I see they´re disappointed because they wanted more. Like that girl in the song. That song was also based on the comet crash on Jupiter a couple of years ago when the British tabloid press talked about how you had to watch the comet with sunglasses and made it seem as if the sky was about to explode. And when the comet hit Jupiter, of course everybody was disappointed because a) the crash took place on the other side of Jupiter, and b) you needed a big telescope to see it. I know this because astronomy is on of my hobbies. So only people who dedicated their lives to astronomy and knew what to expect got something out of it. Everybody else wondered what all the fuss was about. Now, on the evening of the crash, I was outside in a king of romantic settings which I romanticized a bit more for the song. But I could clearly see the correlation between the disappointment of the girl who was with me and the disappointment of the people looking at the sky waiting in vain for this Hollywood type of Jupiter crash that didn´t happen. It also taught me a lesson on not to expect too much of other people. People used to disappoint me all the time, but I realized they weren´t as much letting me down as not conforming to my high expectations.