Bill: If you were to pick ones are there three personal favorite songs of yours on the new album?

Bryce: Yeah, my first of the three would be "All In." "All In" was the last song that was written for the record. Funny enough it wound up being the first song on the record. It was the puzzle piece that was missing on this album to kick it off and kind of show people, "Whoa, this is Lifehouse and they're back." That song kind of hits you in the face.

My second favorite would probably have to be a song on the record called "It Is What It Is." Our fans really seem to like it. I never would have thought that everyone would kind of connect to this song, but it seems to be one of the most popular now. I think it's because it has a great lyric that's different from...Jason kind of takes it outside of his zone, and musically we kind of made a synthetic drum beat for some of it. We just did some things with different sounds on that track.

My third would probably have to be "Wrecking Ball."

Bill: In the live show are there any particular changes from what you've done in the past?

Bryce: We're actually in Nashville working on pre-production for our tour. We're spending a week working on the show. I think what fans can expect from this show is we're going to be playing a lot of the new record. We're going to be playing a few of the old hits, but mostly, since we have a shorter time slot with the Daughtry tour, it's like 50 minutes, we're going to be doing most of Smoke and Mirrors.

Bill: The album title Smoke and Mirrors. Where did that come from?

Bryce: Smoke and Mirrors was actually a song. It was the first song written for the record. It was kind of a Tom Petty influenced track. Basically what happened with how it ties in with the title of the record is we were out touring off of Who We Are, our last record. We wanted to kind of capture the essence and take a snapshot of what we were doing live in the studio for this record.

So we kind of started doing these live, energetic, organic rock songs. We did about five or six of these with "Smoke and Mirrors" being one of them, "Nerve Damage" being another. About halfway through making the record we kind of realized we were missing an element that Lifehouse is thankful for that keeps the blood flowing, and that's the radio side, millions of radio spins.

So we started collaborating with Kevin Rudolf and Chris Daughtry and started experimenting with the pop record. We started getting back to the record-making process. Then we came up with songs like "Halfway Gone" and "Had Enough." So we had the two sides to Lifehouse on this record, the live, organic rock side and then there's the radio-friendly pop side. The hybrid of the two kind of ambiguously fit in with the name Smoke and Mirrors.