I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

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.