On Each Other....."We each thought the other was a freak," pipes in James. "But that's why we liked each other: We were the only two freaks in the class. Everybody else looked like an accountant." The two quickly joined forces and began working on their own music. "We were both more into producing and didn't want to sing at first. But we couldn't afford anybody, and later we found that we were the only ones who could do the songs the way we wanted them done."

On America....."We worked so hard on it from start to finish," remembers James. "A lot of our hopes were riding on that song."

On competition for the same girl...."No, we're too different," laughs James. "He likes them more quiet, I like them really out there and in your face."

On who he'd like to duet with.....I'd like to work with someone like Celine Dion or Mariah Carey," says James. "Definitely Celine. I can't say I've liked everything she's done, but she's an artist I have a lot of respect for her voice is an amazing instrument!"

Does Sky think people realize that "Some Kinda Wonderful" is about devil worship? "More people than I would have though, actually," says James. "It's really in your face if you take the time to read the lyrics. The song is a metaphor for married life."

On his piercing....."He [Antoine] dared me to get a piercing," James says.

On lyrics..."For the people who do take the time to read the lyrics, we wanted to shock them a little bit," James says.

"We don't come from yor typical musician's background; we haven't played the bars or anything, we met and started in the studio," he says.

"We're both perfectionists and when we started making demos we wanted to make them sound finished and professional," adds James.

"There's even a bit of tension when we're working,"

"We have very defined ideas," says James. "We have the gear in our own studio to build our songs up and [the producers] were then able to work side by side with us to bring our vision all the way home."

On love song....."When you write a song, the idea and the feelings you have in your head are easier to express lyrically," says James. "That song is my life in a nutshell with all the disturbances and happy moments, and The Euro-Syndicate was able to help build a track behind it that makes you feel the same way."

"[The album] is a combination of our diverse influences," says James. "I grew up listening to mainstream disco, America, Stevie Wonder, and Southern bands like the Allman Brothers. I only discovered R&B from meeting Antoine."

"Halfway through the course, we became partners," says James. "It was funny, because Antoine was the complete opposite of me. I was like this hippie with a beard halfway down my chest, and he was like [a member of] the Montreal jet set. We had little in common except music."

"It's been a long process," says James. "We've done every style of music imaginable, and I think we did them all well. At one point, we formed a four-piece metal/rap group called Louder Than A Bomb, which never did any shows."

"It was a little scary for us," James says. "The studio for us had been a controlled environment for years, and then going out on stage, it's such a different energy. You lose a little, but you win a whole different thing. We did a lot of rehearsing before our first show and really drilled ourselves to get into that."

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