“I don’t know what the timetable is, I wish I did,” he says. “I’m not getting tied up on what the last album sounded like. I’m also painfully aware that she now has 30 million new fans. I hold her in the highest regard you could of any artist. Whatever aspect of what I do, that can help her to continue to be as great as she is, that’s what I’m trying to do. Goal number one is that it simply kicks so much ass.”