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

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" 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. "

" We kind of are Okies at heart. I don't really know what an Okie is, but I feel like one. "

" Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Touring is something I do really well. "

" We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We never thought we'd be commercially viable, and we were proved wrong. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I play the drums really, really badly. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy. "

" Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid. "

" We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There were just so many limitations to that setup, and we really fully explored them. "

" We don't read a lot of what people say about us. "

" We don't want to be as big as Oasis! "

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

" 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.' "