When I start an album I can almost visualise everything on it, apart from the accidents which are very necessary to any record. There were always some places I wanted to tighten up. I liked the feel of it. But it wasn't a quick album. I spent about four months on it, and that for me is a long time.
Every album is different in the same way every song is different.
I mean, halfway through a song you've changed your environment by singing it. Before I recorded this album most of the lyrics were finished and I knew the songs. For the two weeks we were there, I just wanted them to get to know the music. The album was then cut at Morgan, the Chateau in France and the Manor, so that scene was like another trip, in that we were still getting to know each other. Then came the mix-down and, of course, the world tour.