It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London.

I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet.

I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.

I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away.

I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.

It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love.

I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that.