We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.