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" WHAT IS THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM BACK IN 2003 AND THIS NEW ONE? This one&amp;#039;s closer to home. It&amp;#039;s melodically more sophisticated, and we were a little more dangerous, trying new things musically and really trying to take it as far as we can. Plus, everyone matured as players and musicians \u2014 and I think my voice finally went through puberty fully! WHICH SONG MEANS THE MOST TO YOU? Track 12 [&amp;quot;Help Me Find My Way&amp;quot;] is the most personal song I&amp;#039;ve ever written. It&amp;#039;s about my father, who passed away in 1994. I was young when it happened, and I never wrote about it. There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it&amp;#039;s hard to go there. I didn&amp;#039;t sit down and go, &amp;quot;I want to write something about my dad now.&amp;quot; It just came together one night. It is a heavy song, even the way it&amp;#039;s produced. It&amp;#039;s just vocals and strings, so it&amp;#039;s very intimate. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE BAND NAME ROONEY? There&amp;#039;s a character named Ed Rooney in Ferris Bueller&amp;#039;s Day Off \u2014 and we all love that movie. I&amp;#039;m such an &amp;#039;80s comedy junkie. I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis&amp;#039;s movies. He made Three Amigos, Coming to America, and Trading Places. The other guys in the band and I have the same humor. HAVING STARRED IN THE PRINCESS DIARIES IN 2001, HAVE YOU TOTALLY PUT ACTING BEHIND YOU NOW? I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it. Really, it was all about my band even before I got the part in the movie. I&amp;#039;ve always been real close to film world. I love film, and I will do things in film, but music is more satisfying. It feels more like me. TELL US AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT YOU&amp;#039;VE HAD LATELY. Our drummer Ned [Brower] got married while we were making the record. We were at the rehearsal dinner and everyone was looking at us because they knew we were in Ned&amp;#039;s band. So I thought we should go up there and speak, but I really have trouble with public speaking. I have no problem singing \u2014 that&amp;#039;s a whole other thing! So we all walk to the stage and I take my first step \u2014 and trip! It was a totally dramatic stumble and all I heard was people laughing. I was so red!  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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