It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I put out one album one week, and I'm already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.
I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.
Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.
I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.
No matter what I'm doing for myself or someone else, I'm constantly writing and working on other people's albums.