Feist spoke with the Seattle Times about her decision to take nearly 4 1/2 years to follow up her 2007 album ‘The Reminder’, which featured the 35-year-old’s most successful single, ’1234′.

“You know how difficult it is to stop a boulder from rolling down hill,” Feist explained about the delay before recording ‘Metals’, released last month. “I wanted to come to a complete stop and then see if I had enough fuel to get moving again from a natural perspective, rather than just be going on gravity.”

Leslie Feist tells Hitfix she was inspired by the actions of Jonathan Franzen when penning is 2010 novel ‘Freedom’ to emulate his minimalist actions when putting together her latest album ‘Metals’.

“I wanted to do the same thing, so all I had was my laptop, with no internet, a floor tom and one old guitar, an amp and one new guitar. I made like a little altar, with things that were dear to me like a few postcards and couple of books. It was basically modernity-forbidden zone,” Feist explained.

The singer songwriter released ‘Metals’ last month and is currently touring in support of the album in North America.

Feist spoke with The Huffington Post about her new album ‘Metals’ and offered her take on how “songs are self-fulfilling prophecies”. The 35-year-old explained, “Sometimes you’re talking about the past but as you talk about the past, you’re ultimately talking about a potential future, too. These things will cycle back to your life. Inevitably a lot of these things are just going to happen over and over so each time, you have to figure out when you reach a fork in road, which way did I go last time? Which way do I go this time? Do I want to make the same mistake, be stuck, and be a broken record?”

‘Metals’ is out October 4th on Cherrytree / Interscope.