“We just play all the time, which is great – it’s really improving our live show and we’re becoming better musicians and we’re learning a hell of a lot about what it means to be on tour."

"I’m not competing with young people, I’m keeping it true. This music comes from my heart.”

"There’s times where we’d love to be in a garage rock band and just get maggot and go nuts on stage, but for our music I think we need to be a little more on the ball and polished."

Gossling offers her thoughts on her and her band's day at the Peats Ridge festival.

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“We just wanna keep making music. It’s good to be able to pay the bills, pay the rent, but it’d be pointless for us to compromise what we’ve managed to build by trying to find a way to make more money."

There were a lot of things about it that we did in a different way and it helped us figure shit out and actually it’s made it a lot easier to write since.

"The record helped me figure out what was going on, what was going on with myself and my emotions and what I wanted in life.”

"These festivals, they’re running on a shoe-string budget, so this is about getting ninety of our performer friends together and sharing our oddness.”

"There was a lot of writing and demoing and, I guess, learning in that time. On reflection it was a really great way to prick the bubble for ourselves, ‘cause we did an EP in 2010 and I don’t think a lot of people have heard it – we put it together to recruit a drummer."

"I’d be pretty disappointed if I got seven tracks on an album, but it’s a lot bigger than what you’d expect an EP to be… So we went with mini-album…”

“The stuff that we’re writing that is perhaps less urgent or more subtle, and that in the past we might have just mercilessly thrown away.”

“Holland, of all places, is where it’s at for us,” the music of Will & The People is connecting all over the globe.

"I worked a gig in the States where one stage was completely run by people riding on bicycles,” John Butler really loves sustainability.

"We’re going to retell the story through someone else’s eyes and taking a slightly different angle on the overall story."

"If an EP is testing out a sound, then a single is like a whim – we just went in a direction to see how we liked it, and I think there are definitely some things we’ll want to change in the future…"

"If anything, we’re probably trying to avoid sounding like more bands or genres than we are trying to sound like ones."

“I wrote the lyrics about my great aunt, who is quite ill and is a very inspiring figure. The song still has drive, particularly when performed live.”

"A lot of other people are working and helping the band move along now – there’s a lot of other people in the mix."

“We’ve got some friends who have made the move. Everyone kind of eventually moves out of Cairns. There’s a few people who are still there, but a lot of the musicians and artists usually move away.”