@Crime : Now that is a very interesting observation... The mind has a strange habit of reacting in accordance with it's surroundings...

When you are back in a position that your mind remembers from b4, back to basics so to speak, where your motivation to create and achieve was based on certain principles that you had then, your enthusiasm for innovation increases thus bringing about a greater focus and sense of enjoyment for what you are creating...

This then can translate into some of your finest works, as has been seen countless times b4 with artists who have been bouyed by the ebbs n flows of the music industry...

Not meaning to say this is exactly how it is with you but rather to bring about the question, if I may, that as the market changes and say, you find yourself with improved circulation and bookings etc., maybe achieving more than you have so far, would you be able to approach the studio with the same attitude now that you have come to this awareness...?