Steven has for a long time considered his abandonment of a musical career as a perverse, boneheaded misjudgment. “It was the stupidest thing I have ever done,” he said. He was surprised to find that I did not agree with him. “It was one of the most necessary things you have ever done,” I told him. “To have continued under those circumstances would have been to surrender your soul to your father. Psychologically, you might not have survived that.”
