Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

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.