We tried different singers, it didn't work out. It never felt like a band.

The guy's the real deal. He obviously had the stage presence and the sex appeal and all that sort of stuff. But it was definitely (different) when he did Pretty Vegas and it stood out as a great song.

Andrew had been writing forever and I'd been writing forever, too.

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.

We tried a couple of singers. At the end of the day it just wasn't right. We felt it was us-and-them. We realized we needed someone undiscovered, an untapped talent. The only way to do that was to be a worldwide search. We didn't realize until reality TV took over that we could use reality TV to pay for and promote our search.