I just wanted to do something that would freak people out. That's the best thing to do.

I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.

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

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

There have always been jokes all over our songs; I originally started writing lyrics to make my friends crack a smile, which is difficult.

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.

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