Take some time to read this Times interview with Karen O and Dangermouse on their collaborative album, Lux Prima, that they've been working on for the past 11 years. There's a lot of wonderfully inspiring thoughts peppered throughout about being a female artist in your 40's:

“I’m on a vision quest of sorts: What does it mean to be a woman artist in her 40s? And how can I lay it down so that’s like, something [expletive] awesome,” Karen O said a few days later at a tony Lower East Side hotel that sprouted up two blocks from the tiny Mercury Lounge, where Yeah Yeah Yeahs played their first show, opening for the White Stripes. “It’s not a paved road, it’s not a well-beaten path,” she added. It’s “find your way through that wilderness and write us a postcard.”

...and the difference between being an entertainer and an artist.

“I had always thought music was entertainment, and I didn’t want to be an entertainer, I wanted to be an artist.” He referenced his days in Athens, Ga., when he became immersed in the ’90s psych-rock scene anchored by the Elephant 6 Recording Company. “I was like, people make 15-minute songs? You’re taking yourself out of competition or pop or any of that stuff, you’re just making something. That’s what I want to do.”

Aside from the thoughtful questions on being a creative person on the other side of the hill, it also sounds like it's going to be a helluva record. I've listened to the title track far too many times already.