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

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

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.

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

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.

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

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.