Brandon flowers is on the couch. Both literally -- the dressed-down Killers lead singer is fidgeting on an oxblood leather love seat in the lobby of Hollywood's historic Roosevelt Hotel -- as well as figuratively -- dude can't help but dig deep. "I know I say things that other people don't," confesses Flowers, 27. "I process what I'm thinking and say it anyway.

Dave Portner is freaking out. Better known by his cryptic sobriquet Avey Tare, he's lying flat on the floor, eyes open wide, startled by something invisible and evidently very strange in the air above. Bandmate Brian Weitz, or Geologist, is splayed out beside him, swaying his head from side to side extreeeemely sloooowly.