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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.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can.

Songs always get better after you start playing them live.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

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.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

When you look at anyone's iPod or iPhone and their music collection on there, it's not the same 10 songs. People like diversity.