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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. "

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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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" I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. "

" None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.' "

" You can't really opt into something you don't believe in. "

" 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. "

" Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives. "

" You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands. "

" 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. "

" We're not the first band who went to public school. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments. "

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" We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a one-man thing: it was indeed a band. We wanted to give the impression of a family business, and we just liked the ring of Mumford & Sons. "

" Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird. "

" 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. "

" People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs. "

" There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig. "

" 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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" 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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" We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know. "