"I’d been wanting to make a record like this for a long time, and I’d been talking about [it] – even as far back as when I was in my last band, Hitchcock’s Regret."

"There was a lot of writing being done on buses and hotels but there was also a lot of drinking and a lot of messing around going on as well. So they were good times!”

"You know, I think people can tell when you’re being honest. Curiouser was a much more layered, playful pop record, by comparison."

"I have a tendency to write down song titles before I actually write down the songs. I’m also a big fan of puns and humorous couplings of words and things like that."

"We have been touring non-stop around the world since last summer and we feel great now... We hope we can continue even when we are 80 years old."

"There’s the lighter, more popularist sort of an easier listen on the one album whereas the other is a bit edgier and even lyrically is probably a little bit harder to digest."

"I wanted to distil all my jazz stuff and my rock stuff and my stuff with an orchestra into one project that reflects all those projects, but in a new, intimate way."

"My dad is part east Indian and his family came over from India, into America, and travelled up into Canada. There was a lot of violence in India at the time, it happened during an uprising, so they basically escaped."

"I’m not a rapper and would never describe myself as one. I’m a fan of rap music but I’m a fan of many genres."

"We’re all very proud of our previous work as a group, but it – and we – have got everything to prove to ourselves and we’ve also got everything to prove to our audience because they don’t owe us shit – we owe them.”

"The older stuff is still played exactly the same, we haven’t changed that. But yeah, the newer stuff, we’ll probably add a guitar in there, and there’s a lot of bass playing and stuff along with the electronic – we use real bass lines."

"We finished the mastering of the record for vinyl and CD and mp3 in January or February this year. It took ten times to master the album. It cost a lot of fuckin’ money."

"It’s a wake-up call, and a pretty sad day for the Aussie scene as far as we’re concerned, they were a pretty big part of that scene, and they did great things for it, so it’s sad to see a band like that finish up."

"I started getting texts one day last year from friends saying ‘The Whitlams are on triple j’, and I was like ‘bullshit’, because we hadn’t been for ten years, so it was a real surprise to turn on and hear these album tracks."

"We never really set out to make something sound a certain way. Songs kind of just evolve over time and then they end up sounding a little bit different."

"It definitely helps when your mates are in a good band and they think that your band is cool and they want to help out."

"There’s no bullshit. That’s the whole thing [about] working with Ash – if it doesn’t sound good and if it doesn’t feel good then don’t do it!"

"It is a little bit like coming to a meditation and having a chance just to sit and watch and listen and experience and come away feeling clean and light."

"We’ve just toured with Rodriguez [at this year’s Bluesfest and his sideshows] and Dan Sultan. We might be an instrumental band but that doesn’t mean we reject singers as such. We actually quite like singers."

"I’d love to see it as a series again. I’m always optimistic – the first time I came to Melbourne, I said some things that ended up on the internet. And when I got home I got in trouble with Joss."

“I thought, well if I’m running a youth theatre company presenting theatre for children and young people in WA, then why not get to know the young people of WA and do a show written by them, as it is verbatim theatre, and for them?”

"Some people see what they perceive to be a glamorous decade with retrospective chic, retrospective charm, but any simple reading of that time, whether it’s of it being stylish and libertine, or repressive and sordid, is too simple."

“The only thing that’s gonna last in the future, in my opinion, is artists who put on a good show.”

"We knew it was a highly anticipated record, you know? But I think the thing was to not let that get in our heads and fog that all up. So we made sure that we set ourselves apart."

"I wanted with this record to really get back to ‘I’m David Bridie, the singer and the songwriter’. That’s what I do best, that’s what I love doing best – I couldn’t do the other stuff if I wasn’t doing that."