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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

" Touring is something I do really well. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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 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! "

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

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