I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.