Steven's quote from Staring At Sound:

"Ronald didn't like that song at all, and I don't want to say he was trying to sabotage it, but he was playing parts he knew we wouldn't like."

Wayne's quote from Staring At Sound:

"The Tibetan monks and the crystals and all that stuff [that Ronald Jones had become interested in] is fine, but it's not based in reality; it's too cosmic for me. With 'Evil Will Prevail,' I felt like I broke through the gap of the psychedelic nonsense and said, 'Fellows, we are going to sing about some stuff here, and we may be uncomfortable, but people have given us this opportunity to say something. If I can sing songs this way, with this music backing me up and the momentum of the ideas and all that, I think these songs will get beyond the whimsical and mystical, psychedelic stuff, and maybe we can get into something real about the human condition.' I had stumbled upon this idea that love is only really love if you know how truly evil people in the world are. If you can love knowing that, then that really is love."

Ronald Jones famously disliked "Evil Will Prevail" and was concerned that it would create bad karma.