I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
All of my style came from listening to records.
I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.
The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.