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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

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

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" Touring is something I do really well. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music. "

" 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.' "

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

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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. "

" 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.' "