That song has not gone away and it's for a reason, ... I've had people telling me recently, since the hurricane, that I need to put out that song again because people need its message.

That's how people get ripped off,

the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its own reason for being.

Elvis made it the singer, not the song. He's the reason rock 'n' roll is still alive.

Our last album was kind of crammed full of melodies, and for whatever reason, we felt like every song we wrote for it, the natural thing was to try and put a melody on top to make it real concrete. We've kind of been shying away from that. A few things we've been working on, we've left them in a more open area where they could be flexible. They don't have to be so grounded in a strict melodic structure.

As a committee we had an annoying song fundraiser where we played one song over and over until we reached $50.