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.
Alex KapranosYou really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
Alex KapranosA lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
Alex KapranosMaybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
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