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I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

To be honest, making albums is really never easy. It's always a bit excruciating because there's always this fight to make it great, and then you hit these stumbling blocks along the way.

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.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

When you get the right people together, writing music becomes very effortless.

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.