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" A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere. "
Pretty
You
Try
" As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars. "
Moon
You
Always
" 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. "
Community
Sports
Play
" 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. "
People
Creative
Doing
" Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird. "
Weird
Drummer
Without
" 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. "
Cook
Else
People
" 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. "
Saying
Career
Go
" 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. "
Just
Day
Battle
" 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. "
Hotel
Beautiful
Strange
" I play the drums really, really badly. "
Play
Really
Drums
" I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations. "
Think
Great
Different
" 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.' "
People
You
Think
" 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. "
Best
More
Strange
" I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. "
Universe
Thought
Faith
" 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. "
Said
Enough
Work
" Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives. "
Point
Terrible
Most
" Ninety percent of the time, I'm sitting in a bus driving through some place like the Colorado mountains and thinking, 'Wow, we're not in a pub in London anymore.' "
Time
Thinking
Mountains
" None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.' "
None
Doing
Us
" 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. "
Think
Spiritual
Most
" People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs. "
People
Need
Sincerity
" Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity. "
Self-Awareness
Enemies
Creativity
" Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid. "
Something
Avoid
Self-Awareness
" Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy. "
Band
Be Happy
Happy
" There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.' "
Kind
Identity
Wolf
" There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig. "
Enjoyment
Negative
Higher
" There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make. "
Music
You
Behind
" Touring is something I do really well. "
Something
Really
Well
" We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time. "
Band
Try
Time
" We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people. "
Meet
Heroes
Thought
" We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas. "
Make
Ideas
Joy
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