When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.
Music comes from a place we don't know.
Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?
Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem.
Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.
I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
We aren't cool and never will be.
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.
You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
I do worry - a lot.
There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
