I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.

I'm a little nervous. Definitely. Especially coming from an album like Biophilia, which was about the universe. This is more of a traditional singer/songwriter thing. When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there's nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

The relationship changes as you learn more about people, and the work sort of takes on its own life. I enjoy this very much.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.