Everyone gets that second album syndrome.
Most people don't make it to a second album.
The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
I guess when we were up against it, we knew this album was going to be compared to all the classic early material, because it was going back to the original five.
Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.
