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

You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

I've never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan - I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

Over the last 10 years, there have been so many incredible albums created in bedrooms by people who never would've gotten an album deal.

I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you've got a choice. If you don't want it, just don't buy it. It's also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files. A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I'm sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever. As much as I love the whole pirate kind of thing, the quality suffers.