When I was doing 'Formula Volume 1,' I had so many ideas that I knew one album was not going to be enough.
There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.
There's no grace period between album one and album two.
You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.
The first hit record is easy compared to the second one. You've got to have two for momentum. If you have three, you're pretty much made. But one isn't enough.
We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.
