Our heads were just kinda spinning the whole time.

With this, it was, yes, we were excited about it but it was something new that we hadn't done before being on national TV. You get one shot, one song and that's it. And you're in a room full of screaming girls and we played acoustically and couldn't hear ourselves.

[The first time the band met the Kiss vocalist? At Thanksgiving dinner.] It was totally surreal because when we were done eating, he'd get up and take our plates and take them to the kitchen, ... And we're just like, 'Man, Paul Stanley's cleaning off my plate.'

The suits help make us memorable and identifiable.

We're really trying hard to bring back this thing with melody and good songs and a different way of doing it than the other pop bands that are out there right now. It doesn't really sound like pop did five years ago. Guitar is back.

We were sort of struggling in the beginning to find the direction stylistically what exactly we wanted to be, ... We sort of had a few different things going on that were probably good for a young band because it gave us options as far as what path we wanted to really go full-throttle with.

I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head.

I didn't even know that malls even had shows.

We were really driven to do something and hopefully become really successful with it. We set a lot of small goals and just took things a step at a time.