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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.

No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

If your album sells, that's cool, more people find out about you, more people get turned on to what we're really about-which is a live rock and roll band.

I'm so embarrassed by that album. I don't even own it myself.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.