Is there more pressure with The Almost because it's your project?
No, no -- it was less pressure. I'm sure it'll be a lot more pressure the next time around. But this time I didn't care -- I just wanted to see if we could do it. It would be cool, but I didn't know how it would turn out.

Do you think Underoath fans listen to The Almost?? At first, totally, completely, and now they're still there. Underoath never got a lot of radio play, but The Almost got quite a bit of radio play in the past year, so there's a total different crowd from that alone. That's a whole different world to tap into.

What's your favorite song on the album? "Dirty and Left Out." I had never written a song in the studio. I'm very spastic when it comes to being prepared to make a record. I'm scared and I've mapped out how I'm going to do it. This is the first song ever that I wrote in the studio.

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