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I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

And then the last album, 'Get It', was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

To record an album and stick to one specific style isn't really my thing.

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.