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BFP: Was that sort of a conscious thing of “Let’s take the bull by the horns this time and do it our way” or was it just kind of the dynamic once you were in the studio?
GP: It was an accidental dynamic. I learned better than to say, “I want to do it my way.” I learned how to work with people; I learned how to trust people. I also learned how to pick a producer who I don’t need to worry about whether I can trust him or not because he’s “the man.” Mark and I had been writing together prior to all this, so I already knew what kind of a spontaneous genius he was. So really it was then about how is this going to work in the studio — are we studio musicians? Are we even capable of making a great studio album without having to do 55 takes of every song? So what we discovered within the first two days was that we recorded five songs and they were album-ready.