A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.

When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.

It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.