Actually, LP were given something like $5 Million by Warner to do "Meteora" and Warner just told them to make an album. They totally trusted LP with the album and didn't sit in on the recording so they could tweak around with something that wasn't broken. They put their complete confidence into LP making a great album. The only thing Warner controls is which singles are picked, the marketing and depending on the tour, their concerts.
I heard they wrote 50 songs for Meteora...Well, they maybe should've put one or two more songs on the cd...But that's not my business