How was working with Mike, given that he has a hip-hop background?
I didn’t know that at the time. I found out when I met with him, before we started working, that he had done stuff with Eminem. And I love Eminem and Dr. Dre, so I was like, “You’re really cool!” With Mike, it’s really great because he’s a bass virtuoso, and it was really fun to explore that with him. Plus he introduced me to Matt Chamberlain, who drummed on all the songs that I did with Mike. So Matt Chamberlain is an amazing drummer and a wonderful person, too, and it was really cool to play with a drummer who is that creative and different thinking. How about working with Garret Lee, who has this pedigree working with these great guitar pop bands? See, I didn’t think of it that way, either, because I didn’t really know his stuff at all. I loved how free he was, and we were all together in the studio in London, and he had these really great engineers that we were working with. He was like, “Hey, you want to go play drums on your song with me and the drummers?” And I was like, “Am I a
