When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

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