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Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.

We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

I generally prefer to come in to the studio with a fully written song and then work on the arrangement with the band. Sometimes even the arrangements are pretty much already worked out in my head, but other times we experiment.

Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.