If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.