Donald Glover surprised fans during his Governor’s Ball set back in June by announcing that he was planning to retire his Childish Gambino moniker after one more album. However, in a new interview with BBC Radio 1, he assuaged fears that we could see Gambino disappear soon.

“You still have a lot more time of calling me [Childish Gambino] if you want,” he said, noting that he’s been working on new music while living in London and shooting the new Star Wars film. “I’ve been working on that here. You guys have been very instrumental in my music so I’m very happy about that. London has been very inspirational.”

In June, Glover explained to HuffPost that he thought his alter-ego had run its course:

There’s nothing worse than a third sequel, like a third movie and we’re like, ‘Again?’ You know, I like it when something’s good and when it comes back there’s a reason to come back, there’s a reason to do that. I feel like there’s gotta be a reason to do things and I always had a reason to be punk. Being punk just always felt really good to me and we always looked at Atlanta as a punk show and I feel like the direction I would go with Childish Gambino wouldn’t be punk anymore.

Elsewhere in his BBC interview, Glover expressed his surprise at the fact that “Redbone” has become such a big hit. “I didn’t expect it to be a zeitgeist song,” he said. “Like it seemed like it just crawled in there…It’s cool that people connected to it, I feel like that’s exactly what you want to do as an artist.” The track peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and recently went double Platinum.

Glover later explained that he previewed an early version of the song for women in a hair salon. “We were just talking about music, I think one of the women who was working there was playing Here My Dear by Marvin Gaye,” he recalled. “I happened to have a different version of ‘Redbone’ on my phone, so I played it for them, and they just loved the beginning, but I felt like the middle I had to do some work on… It wasn’t quite there so I went back in the studio and recorded.”

There’s currently no indication of when Glover may drop his next (and potentially final) Childish Gambino album, but it sounds like he’s hard at work on new music while also balancing his acting obligations.

Listen to the full interview here and catch up on all the lyrics to Childish Gambino’s Awaken, My Love! on Genius now.