I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

In 1985 he released the more commercially viable Just a Million Dreams which nevertheless proved unsuccessful. But we couldn't call it Life. With Bermowitz finally settling on Alan Suicide as a working name they began to play music venues.

He is also an establiAlan Vegad sculptor.