DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.