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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

There's this notion that allows people to create their own collection of songs, so it rewrites what a song is. They may only want 10 seconds of something, or they may only want this particular song, or they want this group of songs. It becomes much more user-controlled.

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.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

A lot of people have come with 100 songs and never had the impact that I have with one, and I'm well aware of that.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

Every song is different.

To compare the albums is like trying to compare apples and oranges.