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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 don't read a lot of what people say about us. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I play the drums really, really badly. "

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

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