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She even cited the stage theatrics of shock-rocker Marilyn Manson as one of her inspirations for lights and props.
"It just made me go, 'Wow, I should just do a little more in my show,' " she says.
"Because you know my shows were just like a rock show, me on the stage with my band and our amps and our instruments. I think this time I'll probably sit down and discuss more with the lighting crew and get someone in and discuss what I want to do with the stage."
Lavigne fans will have a chance to see the end result when her so-called Bonez tour -- so named because that's what's under her skin, get it? -- pulls into the Air Canada Centre tonight for sold-out show.
"I play piano; that's going to be different for me," says Lavigne. "I'm going to have fun performing (Under My Skin). This whole record, totally, every single song just means so, so much to me."
Lavigne -- who recently got a People's Choice Award nod for favourite female singer, with the trophies being handed out Jan. 9 -- says the new material sometimes pulls her heartstrings.
"I think I might have difficulties singing Slipped Away (about her late grandfather), at times, depending on my mood, like if I'm upset that day. I'm such a sensitive and emotional person."
So far, Under My Skin has spawned such hits as Don't Tell Me, My Happy Ending and Nobody's Home, and sold over 400,000 copies in Canada and about 2.2 million in the U.S. (Her 2002 breakthrough debut, Let Go, sold 14 million copies worldwide.)
Let's just hope we get to hear Lavigne do the theme song for the SpongeBob SquarePants movie, with the soundtrack due in stores on Tuesday.
In gossip circles, the biggest news about the 20-year-old Napanee native is whether or not she's engaged to fellow Ontarian and SUM 41 frontman Deryck Whibley.
Lavigne, who shares the November cover of Teen Vogue with R&B star Usher, refused to talk about Whibley for the article.
Back in May, she complained generally about the celebrity-obsessed culture we are currently living in.
"If I'm in L.A., I've almost been run off the road, like it's so intense, the paparazzi there. I taped Ellen and afterwards I was on my balcony at a hotel and I looked down and there was, like, six guys across the street with huge cameras looking up at me. My manager, like, pulled me into my room."
Much has been made of Lavigne's refreshing outspokenness: Her ongoing feud with Hilary Duff, speaking out against Ashlee Simpson's recent lip-syncing, and getting into trouble with the mayor of Napanee when in the September issue of Blender she slagged her hometown as dead as disco with "f---all" to do.
The uglier side to all that press is that an Lavigne-obsessed fan from Washington State was formally charged with felony stalking in late August.
The man, who initially began writing directly to Lavigne last year, violated a court order after he found out where Lavigne's parents lived and started writing to them.
"That's why I have two bodyguards," she told The Sun. "Because you have, like, weird incidences. When you're a high profile person, there's a little bit of risk, because you don't know what people are going to do. I hope that doesn't sound like I'm complaining about fans. I'm just saying there are weird incidents sometimes."