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We became the songs we wrote.

I lived for music since I could think.

We lived and breathed acting.

I was raised on pop music.

I lived and breathed dancing. It was my everything.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

My earliest memories as a child are listening to Beatles records, and they are a big part of how I've learned to write pop songs.

Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.