That rock ‘n’roll, eh? That rock’n’roll, it just won’t go away. It might hibernate from time to time, sink back into the swamp. I think the cyclical nature of the universe in which it exists demands that acquiesce to some of its rules. But it’s always waiting there, just around the corner,” he added. “Ready to make its way back through the sludge and smash through the glass ceiling, looking better than ever. Yeah, that rock’n’roll, it seems like it’s faded away sometimes, but it will never die. And there’s nothing you can do about it.

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.

There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain.

I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.