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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

I don't like doing 25 songs. I think that just kills the audience. I think the show should be 17, 18, 19 songs and encores.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

I had deeper, more reflective songs on the first album.

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.