I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

In 1985 he released the more commercially viable Just a Million Dreams which nevertheless proved unsuccessful. But we couldn't call it Life. With Bermowitz finally settling on Alan Suicide as a working name they began to play music venues.

He is also an establiAlan Vegad sculptor.