2009-05-12 Entertainment Weekly

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Did you have a different mindset going into record this album than the last one?

Some of the mindset was the same, which is always the same: Just a really strong spirit of adventure hits me, and I become a little explorer person. I've got my backpack, I've got my water bottle, and I'm off to f--ing god knows where -- the desert, the mountains, the sea, touching everything, trying everything, following tangents and really just being in complete mad scientist mode. That's always the same, I think. But it gets more and more so with each record. I started out being a real purist. In the beginning, I was like, Records are only real records if they’re done all in one live take. Slowly, I was like, Well, I don't know if that's true. A lot of the records that I love aren't done that way. I think with this one I was letting go of trying to control everything, and trying to let things happen. Though I'm sure if you talk to some people they'll be like, "She’s a crazy perfectionist." But I'm less of a crazy perfectionist than I was a little while ago. [Pauses] Well, I'm still a crazy perfectionist, but I'll try more things without being like, "No, I can't do that."