You might be right, it's hard to tell. I took it to mean that yes, they hadn't talked for a while leading up to May 2007 when the interview was conducted, but as he later says he tried bringing him in at several crucial lucrative points during EAT ME, DRINK ME. That could easily all have been during the same month as the interview, though, as post-production and music videos would have been done more than three weeks before the album if he was still on Interscope's schedule.