Touring and promoting and recording take a lot of time, it's just getting the right balance that's important.
You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.