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The individual - man as a man, man as a brain, if you like - interests me more than what he makes because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

It's really important to me that the songs not only stand out individually but work as a full body of work, too.

Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.