"I did not understand this album for a long time. I played it because someone I respected played it, and then I played it because I had played it before, and then one morning driving to the hotel in November, the light still grey and the city not yet awake, Gloria came on and something in it opened. She is singing about becoming. I was fifty-three years old and I had already become whatever I was going to become, and I understood for the first time that this was not a sad thing."