"Before I did my first album, which I really didn’t wanna do, I maybe would have thought I couldn’t handle it. But now, I really think it’s important that it’s out there and people ask me questions because there are some people that don’t know how to deal with it."

“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."

“We use to say we are road surfers because we are awful real surfers. We all have been trying to learn [to] surf a couple of times."

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

“I think it’s a quality piece of work. It feels good to be back in the more singer-songwriter arena after spending the last couple of records in a more heavy metal kind of sound.”

“In that way it’s a collection of portraits of the various pieces and parts of this twenty-eight year old fella."

“A lot of massive hip hop tunes were based on jazz samples though, so that was how I discovered and gained a love for hip hop personally."

"The thing about the songs is that, even solo, they stand up. There’s a power in them that’s almost holistic in a way, you know?"

“It’s gonna be a fun show – [we’re] playin’ all the loud songs ‘cause I figured everyone will be drunk by the end of the night and it’s the Beetle Bar and everyone talks, so I thought right, we’ll do the big ones!”

"It is what it is in that moment, and all the great albums… Led Zeppelin, I’m such a great fan of Led Zeppelin, and you know, the tempos speed up and they slow down, and they do on our album as well."

"The album’s done everything I’ve wanted it to do, pretty much. It’s gotten me some pretty good recognition, it’s sold lots of copies, and it’s exposed me to that festival scene, which was kind of the goal."

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

"The reception for the EP has been really great – we’ve gotten some nice reviews and people have been very kind to us. It’s all going a bit better than I expected, really.”

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

"I’d rather have an empty cup and just listen as much as I can. Because you just learn so much more that way than walking around spouting off your opinion. The most important thing for us is to learn as much as we can.”

“I don’t want to speak for the guys but I don’t think of Bankrupt Billionaires as a side-project for The Optimen anymore. I’m not sure it ever has been.”

“No, no,” Boney protests. “I write really manly songs about manly things.”

“We just got a bit carried away I think! We really wanted to get a whole lot of African groups and make a mini-festival and have good food available and, yeah, just have an extended party. We’re really happy about presenting this group of bands.”

"There have been other genres that I’ve been trying to follow, but [I was] always leaning back. But then the last five or six albums I’ve done have definitely been in the direction of the music I really like listening to."

“I lived in Amsterdam for a little bit... and I was walking round the red light district and some other places and it was late at night and just the look in people’s eyes… There are so many stories."