Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.