I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

I am super-interested in fashion. I love being a person whose clothes get discussed. That makes it more interesting for me.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.