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" I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs. "
Ted Dwane
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" Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid. "
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" As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community. "
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" We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people. "
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" We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love. "
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" I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. "
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" It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.' "
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" You can't really opt into something you don't believe in. "
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" It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a year or so later. "
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" None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.' "
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" You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that are not part of some formula for global success. But it felt right, and I think there's some value to purity of intention. "
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" Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing. "
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" Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting. "
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" There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make. "
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" In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre. "
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" Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I think it is for most bands. "
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" There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig. "
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" If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you. "
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" Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives. "
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" We never thought we'd be commercially viable, and we were proved wrong. "
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" Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy. "
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" We really believe in our music, and it's still heartening to know that it's appreciated, and that's what sticks. "
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" I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there. "
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" We don't sing about eating local produce or growing beards or anything like that. It's funny to find yourself in a position where people associate you with things that are completely arbitrary to your songs. "
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" We don't want to be as big as Oasis! "
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" Can't cook. Can't, I dunno, do paperwork. I don't know, what else can't we do? I'm not to be trusted with other people's animals. "
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