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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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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. "