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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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.' "

" I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations. "

" 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 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. "

" Touring is something I do really well. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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