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30 Seconds To Mars full of energy By MARK DANIELL-- For JAM! Music

TORONTO - "Were you just in there during sound check?" 30 Seconds To Mars vocalist-guitarist Jared Leto asks, folding himself into a couch backstage at the Kool Haus. "I don't know if you were, but right before we played 'From Yesterday,' I stopped everyone and started playing a little melody.

"That's a new song. I just made it up on the spot."

Stretching his tan slippered feet across a grainy coffee table, Leto - the actor, who formed 30 Seconds To Mars in the late '90s with his brother Shannon - likes being able to pinpoint those moments when he's afflicted by bursts of creative energy.

"Our music lives and breathes on its own accord," he says. "Some were written on a balcony overlooking the ocean in Africa on an acoustic guitar, others were made on a computer in a studio, but every one of our songs has its own journey, has its own rules and is unique unto itself."

Backed by the success of their MTV hit, "The Kill," Leto, and bandmates Matt Wachter (bass), Tomo Milicevic (guitar) and brother Shannon (drums), have been touring non-stop in support of the band's nearly platinum, "A Beautiful Lie."

"In a weird way," he says with a bit of a grin, "it seems kind of like it's the beginning. It feels like we have so much to do.

"More and more people are discovering who we are so it feels like a brand new record for the audience and for us."

Released with little fanfare in 2005, Leto is proud "A Beautiful Lie" has grown beyond any buzz his Hollywood name brought them when their self-titled debut hit shelves in 2002.