When pressed I couldn’t say why, exactly, although I’m sure she will offer you many theories, perhaps some of them Freudian. [Laughs; long pause] I suppose that, first, I thought Opal was interesting, in her music and in herself, and then to my surprise she was quite strong-willed, and those two things together signaled to me that she could back me up in making odd and creative things and then be willing to fight for them.
