People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.
I'd never intended to write a Christmas hit - I was a serious musician!
There's no grace period between album one and album two.
I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.
The most frustrating thing for me as a singer is that people have pinpointed me as an actress who suddenly woke up one day and decided that I wanted to sing.
The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.
Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!
Nobody sets out to make a bad record.
But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.
When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we've been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren't like us.
If an athlete plays the guitar, they say, 'That's so cool, he can play the guitar.' But if a guy raps, they say, 'Please don't be another rapper,' only because the rappers are so bad. I promise I'm not anything like that.
The first year with the success that we had and let me point out that the time frame changes depending on which decade you look at it. In the seventies acts were kind of expected to do an album a year. If you look at the Beatles they were doing three a year.
