We Found That Creative Momentum

Dean Roland of Collective Soul

Cris Cohen: You guys are amazingly prolific. You were already working on this album, "Here To Eternity," at the time we did the interview for the last album. Why a double album? Some bands would have stored some of those songs (for later).

Dean Roland of Collective Soul: I don't think we necessarily went in thinking it was going to be a double album. We recorded the record at Elvis Presley's estate in Palm Springs (California). So we had that in our back pocket in terms of inspiration. And we had access to (the house) for a little over a month. We started rolling with it and we found that creative momentum. And once we were in it, we just kept going.

We recorded probably 23 or 24 songs in that span of time. You're not really trying for that to have some sort of cohesiveness, but it just naturally happens. So we just ran with it and it felt good.