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" Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero. "

Winston Marshall

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" Just being thought of as a Christian is pretty annoying. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But just being told you're anything when you're not. "

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" We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play. "

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" It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself. "

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" We like being English, but we're not that patriotic. "

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" Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience. "

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" My dream is to tour for 50 years. "

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" One of the things we say in this band is if it's not fun, it's not worth doing. "

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" We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows. "

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" We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it. "

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" We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest. "

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" I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion. "

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" I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions. "

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" It's always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they've seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we've earned their applause. "

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" This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts. "

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" I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a row and went out afterwards, we'd lose our voices. We know our limits. "

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" The trick to techno, as a connoisseur, is that you got to do two things: keep your hands down and your mouth shut. "

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" Once you're out there in front of people, I don't think there's any choice than to just give it your all. "

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" You can never really tell what your influences are. "

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" Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't help that we wear waistcoats and tweed the whole time. But there is a reverse snobbishness in England towards that sort of stuff. And I think that's one of the reasons we really enjoy America, 'cos we're classless. "

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" The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit. "

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" Every day is a learning day. "

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" New York - it's the center of the world. "

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" 2014 was a pretty bad year for me. Quite a lot of loss. "

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" You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well. "

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" For me, food and music are very similar in that you create, you spend a lot of time making something, and it only lasts a few seconds or a few minutes. "

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" I'm a modern-day renaissance man. "

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" We called ourselves Mumford & Sons because we liked the idea of an old-fashioned, family-owned store. "

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" We're all big fans of bluegrass. "

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