Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

I think right now, you've seen these artists pop up over the last decade who've flirted with branching together a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them have been huge, and sold millions of records. And I think over time it's become a little bit of what the industry can be.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.