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" I play the drums really, really badly. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Touring is something I do really well. "

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

" 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. "

" When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009. "

" 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 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. "

" We really believe in our music, and it's still heartening to know that it's appreciated, and that's what sticks. "

" We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas. "

" Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity. "

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

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

" We're obviously a London band, and British at heart. "

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

" When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't just repeat. It's valueless. So we - we're really keen to challenge ourselves. I suppose a byproduct of that will be challenging our fans a bit as well. "

" 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. "

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

" We're a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy - we're never going to stand still. "