“I think a lot of the emotions we sing about in the songs can be quite general; I feel like we have been experiencing everything we sing about on the album and we believe most other people of our age have to."

“From the therapy sessions I had a load of new ideas about songs. So many artists have exposed their personal life in song, so I thought, why not tell the world what I’ve been up to?”

"With this record, it felt like we’ve experienced so much growth over the last six years writing with other people, we needed to take that growth to the next level internally."

"We didn’t want someone who was ‘modern dance’, we wanted the real booty shaking kinda stuff. And I forget how it even came up that we were decided to do stills of sex moves right in the middle, but I don’t know, we thought it would be funny."

“I definitely don’t think we fit into the overnight success story category at all.”

"I’m half-Australian, and I was a bit nervous about the [debut] trek when we went there and whether the guys would get beaten up by bogans or jocks, or whether they’ll not get beaten up and just like have the best time on the beach."

“Although in some ways of course it’s artificial, its music, but I don’t think we know how to calculate what we’re doing."

"It’s kind of telling a story or working through that experience of beating yourself up and then finding a way to work through it all."

“When I started, laptop music at least in America, was less band-centric."

“Every tour gets crazier and crazier, but we’re very humble, so we just have to kind of take in all the stuff that’s going on around us but at the same time keep our heads down and focussed on what’s coming up, sort of thing.”

"It was frustrating for the offers not to come in [from promoters] but we understood it."

“Once the whole album stuff’s done, I’m sort of personally still writing some stuff. But it’s not necessarily Hungry Kids Of Hungary songs. It’s a little personal pet project of mine."

"We always tour-manage ourselves overseas. So it’s in our hands to get to the shows, but it is that thing of: if we don’t make the show, then we’re fucked."

“I think we really feel like an Australian band. I think Australia’s the best market for us and we feel like when we come back to Australia it’s really good."

“We’d go into the studio to make a punk record, and that record ends up taking a year and a half to make. People pretty much forgot about the band. Then the second record comes out on Island and doesn’t sell a hundred million copies so Island drops you."

"There are other DJs out there who are brilliant, but I feel like Gusto is my fam, you know? He is like one of my best mates and I couldn’t just replace him. So we turned the live show into a band."

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