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.

I don't mind not being cool.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

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.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

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.