How was the process of recording FROM UNDER THE CORK TREE?
PETE: Pretty much really insane. It was pretty much writing a bunch of songs, then trashing them, then not thinking any of the words were good enough to go with the music, and back and forth – which was kind of insane. It pretty much involved me and Patrick sharing a dark apartment for three months in L.A. and only coming out to trade words or music with each other. SKRATCH: What do you do when you feel like all your songs are crap? PETE: If a song doesn’t make you feel alright or make you fell like so happy that you own the song, then I guess it should be trashed. SKRATCH: What do you think of all the attention you are getting from MTV? Is this type of attention something you have been working towards, or is it a nice bonus to what has already been a rewarding experience? PETE: That’s the kind of thing about attention: you can’t really pick the kind that you get – which is unfortunate, because you have these child stars, and their dads just get wasted and drive their cars into trees,
