We got together and that first rehearsal we went through 80 percent of our songs. It was great, and we knew he'd work out for us.

Every night you don't know what to expect. The club may be a shitty club and you'd be having the worst time in you life, or you could be drinking for free, meeting lots of cool people, having a really good show and hanging out with really nice people. Maybe it's the mystery of it that's kind of nice.

I guess there's a point when all of us had lost faith in anything that was new, which helped us discover a lot of really good old records. It's kind of a fresh, nice thing for them to do to pull back from those old records and take those influences and make them into something new that is appreciative of the past yet turning a new page.

When you really pay attention on the recording, you're making sure each drum sounds the way you want it to sound and your guitar is where you want it to be.