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" If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" We have this spirit that's just uncrushable. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they asked us to play live. "

" 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. "

" 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. "