I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.

Touring for two years is excruciating.

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.

You know, if I wrote the arrangements two years from now, they would probably be a lot slicker.

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.