A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

I don't know Justin Bieber so I wouldn't want to marry a man I don't know.

I love the hamster but I think if I took him on tour he might die.

I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.

I try not to say exactly what songs are about sometimes, because I feel like it ruins it for people.

It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.