All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.

In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life.

Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...

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

It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.