“Although my mouth has got me into trouble a few times recently, I think ‘cause I’ve been a bit more relaxed, I understand what I can and can’t say and understand when you’ll be misquoted.”

“I’m a very intuitive writer, so I didn’t need to go to school; I could’ve happily gone off and written music by myself."

"But live, it’s pretty simple. It’s like the usual setup: two guitars, bass and drums. It works for us on stage, obviously, and it’s probably what we’ll bring to Australia.”

“There’s just a whole helluva lot of great rap out right now – honestly. I think it’s one of the best times for hip hop music in general. Maybe there were a few years where it was a little stale, but I just think that there’s so many new cool voices out right now."

“I love music so much and it’s always been the most important piece of my life. Like, you know, at a young age [I was] going to record stores all the time and sneaking into gigs when I was too young to be able to go."

"That’s why I make music – so I don’t have sit around all day describing shit,”

“I mean, we came up with the name Alt-J, you know, we thought it was quite neat. It looked quite good when it was written down, and a lot of people kind of like really expect us to give great explanations about it or think that we’re Illuminati or something."

"There’s a polemical element in my lyrics, I know, but that’s just for me; I’m just trying to say something to myself. I’m not trying to say something about music; I’m not trying to say anything about music."

“The purpose is not to make the voice more in tune,” Leaneagh reveals, “it sort of distorts it in a certain way that kind of smoothens it out into an instrument, more than just a vocal performance.”

"The way you make a record is for everybody to have a say and Nick was hands-on for sure, but at the same time he recognised that this was our band and that we’ve all made a lot of records without him. It wasn’t difficult to manoeuvre that."

“So I just kind of wanted a fresh start but without really changing the band name or anything, or changing much. I just wanted people to be aware that we are doing something a little different than we were before.”

Ahead of his peformances at Laneway, we get inside the head of Holy Other.

“We just started playing it and went, ‘Ooh, let’s play this tomorrow!’ – that’s how most of our songs are written."

"Our side projects are just that, they just evolved when you collaborate with someone creatively. Besides, I think both me and Erlend would drive each other crazy if this was the only platform for expression!”

"We never really wanted to be playing Laneway, you know? It was just something we were doing with our time. We just started mucking around, and as it goes, it’s just gotten more serious as it’s gone on I guess.”

“We’re not smart enough to decide that we’re going to make an album, plan it out and then execute it.”

“I guess there have been a couple of folky bands that have paved the way for us in America. I think it was maybe the right music at the right time for the American market. "

“Including all the shit high school efforts, it’s like the sixth or seventh album I’ve done. So it is your debut record, but it isn’t, in another way.”

"There was there was this alien called Henry that crash landed on earth and found out about weed and rap music, and made an album using the engines and gears from his spaceship.”

"I think it’s funny that people always feel compelled to put a label on everything. It’s actually all just funny to me. Especially when you put a track on Soundcloud, they expect you to put a genre in and I’m never sure what I’m supposed to write."