You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.

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

From the very beginning of my life, people have always enjoyed it when I was around for a couple of days at a time. So, I think, most people in touring bands are best in small doses. That's why we turn up in a town, play and then we leave before anyone can get sick of us.

The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

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.

I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.