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So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

I think some people found the production took away from the actual songs, which I can understand.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.