We tried different singers, it didn't work out. It never felt like a band.
We said at the beginning we didn't want a Michael Hutchence look-alike or sound-alike.
It was unanimous and foot-dragging. It's a pretty sobering prospect to go on international television and pull your pants down as low as we did. We trusted our instincts, we trusted ourselves.
Press, photo shoots, video shoots. By the time we finished the album he was a seasoned veteran.
There's a chemistry that evolves in a band. It's not in our soul to not go on. The five of us have been a family playing together since high school.
It was filmed at 7 o'clock in the morning. It had to be edited and on a plane to New York by 5 p.m.. It was worse for the singers - they'd have to get up at 4 o'clock. That whole side of it was very non-rock 'n' roll.
Andrew had been writing forever and I'd been writing forever, too.