Michael has no limits when it comes to his content, and is constantly coming up with new material and collaborating with new artists - as a self described "compulsive writer," his personal record is writing 400 songs in a single year. He expanded on his creative process by mentioning a concept Brian Eno shared with bandmate David Byrne; don't think of songs as architecture, think of it like gardening. Plant your seeds and see what grows. When writing a song, Michael asks each artist for three adjectives and a color they associate with their song. Although he does not have Synesthesia, he strongly associates songs with color. "Sounds have colors in a sense," he explained, "you know what a gold sounds like, how a black song or firey red songs sound, you know?"