Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.
You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.
You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.