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" Everybody laughed at me when I said I wanted to make a dance video, but when I said, 'What would it look like if Joe Strummer made a dance video?' everybody shut up. "

Joshua Ostrander

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" This whole 'Mondo' thing started when I saw Jack White perform at Coachella a couple of years ago. It was like a religious set, man. "

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" I was working two landscaping jobs; I was recording songs in the spare bedroom. I would get up at 4 A.M., go to work, get back at 6 P.M., have nap, then start recording, just go until I fell asleep. "

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" I have songs that sound like this and songs that sound like that. I think it's just my vocal that keeps it all together. "

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" I have a weekly playlist on Spotify called Mixtape Mondays. So every Sunday night, I sit around listening to tunes to place. It's becoming my favorite part of the week. "

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" All my lyrics are about my love life or the lack thereof. "

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" I don't practice very much anymore. "

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" I was doing some research and stuff and reading about Bowie. When he referred to his music as 'plastic soul,' I was like, 'That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.' "

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" I tried to play some trumpet and stuff, so I had to figure that out. I record everything in my house. "

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" Looking back at it now, it's almost overwhelming, the amount of work that went into writing 'Shine', and to come up with the ideas that we're doing now. "

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" Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That's a great career band. It's not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan. "

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" My dream is to play Coachella, main stage, when the sun's going down. "

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" It's cool seeing stuff, like, that come together really quickly and the reaction that it gets. "

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" I recorded 80 per cent of the record in my guest bedroom; then, when 'Shine' went to number one on one of the charts, the label called and said, 'Can you do an EP?' Then, 'Can you do a full length? And can you do it in two weeks?' "

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" Now is the time to get out there and give people a taste of 'Mondo Cozmo.' "

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" I've never had T-shirts at the merch table before. "

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" I grew up really religious, and my family still is, but I'm not so much. That scene in 'Cool Hand Luke', it just destroyed me. "

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" My drummer was my best friend. It weighs on me that we put all that time in - I played with him for 15 years, beginning with 'Laguardia' - and we had moderate success. "

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" I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me. "

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" I've got to give my neighbors a bottle of wine or something because I was just screaming into microphones and learning how to play instruments, and it was a lesson in patience for them, I believe. "

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" I'm all over the place with what I listen to. "

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