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" 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.' "

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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. "

Ted Dwane

Moon

You

Always

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ted Dwane

Best

Strange

" Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing. "

" 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. "

Ted Dwane

Play

New

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Ted Dwane

Saying

Career

" There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make. "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere. "

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

Ted Dwane

Never

Know

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

Ted Dwane

Just

Spirit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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.' "