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Paintings are beautiful

but, you know,

once you see it

eventually you

see everything in it.

With music, it's forever changing.

For a piece of music to succeed,

it has to take you through

some kind of emotional journey.

The right chord sequence,

the right few seconds of a song

and you are right there.

That's exactly how I feel.

I love in trying to interpret what

the music is saying both

lyrically and musically,

that's why I like music

and once I've tried to figure it out,

I have personally crazy fantasies of what

the person was thinking about

when they wrote that

and why they wrote that

and how does it relate to me.

That's what music is.

You mix the right word at the right time

with something that's beautiful

and moving and sort of.

That makes you,

you know,

the hair on the back

of your neck stand up,

it's an incredible moment.

That's probably why we need it

because it's wonderful.

The song has a story in it,

there is a heart behind it,

there is a frequency within it

and you, as a person,

delivered it

and that why people care.

Music is the most powerful

vehicle in the world.

Period.

Despite the lawsuit,

we decided to move forward

and start making our new album.

And that meant financing it ourselves.

So, we built a studio in the basement

of the house in the Hollywood Hills,

hired Flood and began the process.

Flood is like this superstar producer.

A legend. A guy that has made albums

that will live forever.

I mean 20 years

I've been listening to his work.

I used to look on the

back of albums and CDs

and tapes and who is this guy Flood?

I didn't even know if he was a real person.

You always see this

mysterious little name Flood.

He produced Depeche Mode.

U2.

Nine Inch Nails.

PJ Harvey.

Smashing Pumpkins

and the most important, obviously, is:

Thirty Seconds to Mars, so...

His wide range of creativity,

it's inspiring.

For me creativity is about

vulnerability,

taking risks,

showing one's true emotion

and to be able to make

everybody feel as though

they can make mistakes,

they can put themselves out there

and there's no recriminations.

Jared took on a huge responsibility

and a huge burden

when he chose to start making

"This is War" without a label on board.

He didn't know what the

future held for the band.

It was very scary because

he was letting me know like:

"Look, we are alone.

There ain't gonna be any money coming in,

whatever we, as a band,

or really me, Jared,

as like the leader,

did good business to save

some of the money that we made,

that's now going to pay for our album

and our producer and our studio

which may result in zero Dollars."

We had to bet on ourselves,

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