The following are excerpts from an MTV News interview with Silverchair while the band were in the studio recording their new album "Freak Show."

Interview excerpts from Daniel Johns:

"The album's probably gonna be called "Freak Show". Just I dunno' if it's gonna change, but probably just "Freak Show" because it's like similar to being in a band, kind of. Like the old freak shows in the 40s and just traveling around and doing your show and going to the next town and doing it again. We saw there was a similarity there and thought it would be a good theme for an album, kind of."

"The new album has some heavier kind of harder stuff on it. We've got two songs that've got strings and one, one of the songs is got Indian-like music on it. And just cause there's these people in Sydney who one of the guys who used to play with Ravi Shankar, who did some of the Beatles' stuff, he has, like, a little group who he does stuff with and we've got some of that on the song and it sounds pretty weird."

"You do get excited, but not really ecstatic when you hear the finished product cause you've not played it so many times in the studio and you've already heard it so you know what it's kind of gonna sound like. But when we were first recording we were really kind of vibed on it 'cause we had like all the sounds happening and we knew what we wanted and it was sounding how we wanted it to sound. Now it's kind of grown on us and we're used to it so it's not as exciting. But we're really happy with it."

"On this album we thought we'd take more time recording and try some different instrumentation and just experiment with some stuff. We've kind of got our live show down now. We know how we play live and we think the live show should be a bit different to the record. Otherwise you can just listen to the record. We wanted it to be a bit different and the live show's a bit more raw."

"The new album's changed from the first album but it wasn't a conscious effort to change, to just to change for the sake of it. It just happened the way it happened. We just started writing and the songs started because we started listening to harder music. The songs are darker and heavier than on the first album. And the mellower songs are quieter than the quiet songs on the first album, but not as they're not as kind of radio-friendly. Like "Tomorrow" is really kinda radio track and there are songs that can be played on the radio on this album but not as kind of happy, which isn't bad, I don't think."