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To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like stylistic consistency, pacing, a coherent mood. All that stuff goes out the window.

I think every album you have, especially if it's done well, you feel like you're competing with yourself.

I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own right. I have that mentality. too: if a song sounds like something I've already done, then I'll throw it out, because I want each record to be a progression.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.