If nothing else, I have money.

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.

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

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.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.

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.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.