I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

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.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.