One thing about Lanois that I liked is that he didn't want to float on the surface. He didn't even want to swim. He wanted to jump in and go deep. He wanted to marry a mermaid. All that was fine to me.
Off and on during the time we were cutting "Series of Dreams," he'd say to me something like. "We need something like 'Masters of War,' 'Girl from the North Country,' or 'With God on Our Side.'"