It started out as a bunch of gigs, no songs and no material.

We're 100 percent going with the flow, no songs whatsoever. That's as structured as it gets.

We name all the songs by listening to what it sounds like (and coming up with something). We have lots of songs and lots of names.

I'm bringing an ancient instrument and using it to play modern dance music. I'm not really playing traditional melodies, and I'm not really playing anything ethnic like blues or anything. It's kind of future music really. It's not related to anything culturally. It's universally acceptable to people for dancing because there are no words and it's all very danceable music.

We tried to record in the studio, and we didn't have the magic. We need the audience to have the magic.

Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly on this album. I think people love it and they want to hear it, so expect a lot of the songs from Confessions on a Dance Floor .