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In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

I've got a lot of songs about having fun and partying, but it's a lot of work.

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.

I really enjoy recording right after a tour. We're tired, but the songs are really lived in by then.

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

My first album is playful.

For the second album I look forward to doing a lot of serious collaboration and taking the experiences I've had over this last year, good and bad, and working it into the album.

It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.