12th studio album coming out in a few days. as you move on from the slippery when wet days and going g into decade two, three, and starting the fourth, do you feel sfoblt write music that is more socially conscious? no. but i d say when i was 25, i was never going to be 50 painting my fingernails black and writing [ bleep ] on my belly. okay. but i said that, you know. i said it as a kid, and then i grew into that which was good. and the truth was that when you are 25, you should write you give love a bad name. who wouldn t want to write that at 25? that was what life was about. if i was 50 trying to write that now, i d be deemed a dirty old man. it would be a little sick and twisted, you know. reporter: there are some who are doing it. not me. not me. we ve grown up in public. that s soerlt rt of the cutenes. you can go on. with my hair down to here.