I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
I may just keep releasing singles 'til I run out of music, which is kind of cool in a way - as long as people don't go, 'Oh my God, not another one!'
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.
I had done the No Doubt record Push and Shove, and that was a real challenge for me: I think after the giving birth twice, going on multiple tours, all the stuff that I had done, I really got quite burned out after that.
We did three records in three years and I don't know how many world tours, and we were just in our early 20s. And then we imploded.
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
