“ Elliott told me about having a psychotic episode while he was recording Figure 8,” says McConnell, “He was fed up with the current state of his life. A lot of people from the label were telling him he needed to get it together. He was so sick of people talking about the future. So he carved the word ‘now’ into his arm with a knife. And he sat down at the piano and wrote ‘Everything Means Nothing To Me’ as the blood was dripping down his arm.
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