"Slayer are one of my all-time favourite bands and Jeff was the coolest dude in the band and wrote some of the greatest thrash riffs of all time. Angel Of Death, Raining Blood, you just don’t get better than those tunes."

“It has always been for the music, never to be rockstars, well the proof is in the pudding there for sure."

“We felt that after (third album) Phosphene Dream we had brought in influences that really appealed to us, and we wanted to push that further, but also integrate it with our past to make something fairly seamless."

The [original] song, Fuck Winter, was a bit too happy – it sounded like a, you know, Coke ad or Channel Ten ad or something like that for summertime – so it wasn’t really where we were going in the studio, so we had to get a big dirty sound up.

"All my other albums had multiple producers. This record was the first time I’ve worked with one producer from start to finish."

"Pop writers create these long-lasting songs – songs that stay with people – we’d love to do that in Tigertown, make the sort of music that really lasts."

"I’ve stayed in bands in the past where we didn’t have management or a good network of people around us and it’s really easy to go nowhere."

"We were definitely going for that slick, well-played pop sound. Your recorded stuff shouldn’t be like the live show. If you’re a good live band, the live show should always be better."

"The way things are done these days is so different. We had four years off but the industry has changed so quickly."

"We take one day off a week usually [though] days off really don’t help because we usually drink more on those days by accident."

"It’s definitely something that you constantly have to work on. I’m lucky because my wife supports me completely and supports what I do and I know it’s not easy necessarily for her you know."

"I think the record hopefully won’t turn people off but there will be some more serious stuff – there’s two ballads in there."

"It’s not for chin scratchers. We want to see people dance, and/or stand back and hug the person they’re with."

"I just did a whole bunch of interviews in France, and it was right at the time there was some huge debate about legalising gay marriage, and every single interviewer asked me about it, both being a queer woman and being from Canada."

"Growing up, his mum never really supported him doing music. She never bought him a drumkit – she considered it taboo to get involved with music."

"I definitely think I’m a revolutionary with the human rights, the love, the progression of the human race as a whole."

"Then unfortunately we had hired a producer named Colin Richardson, who we used on the first album, to do the second album. But we had surpassed what he thought we should sound like. So we got rid of him."

"I didn’t take it particularly seriously when we first started. What really made it fantastic was that some of Jess [Guille – vocals]’s songs were so great."

"Over the last year, I’ve been getting back into electro a lot. Before that, I was doing a bunch of tech-house and traditional house, I guess."

"When we first came up with Empire, we didn’t have an audience, but now there is one and there’s demand and there are all these other responsibilities."

"I was hit by a car and basically almost died – my spine was broken in three places, and about fifteen bones in my body were broken, so I was out of action for a while."

"It was like putting your old shoes on or something – it just comes naturally. There’s no ego or anything like that in the band."

More cowbell = better. More psy-trance = not better.

"Trying to get more into like [that] four people playing kinda feel. There’s really no rules about how you go about producing or recording a song, it’s all about what you think can make the best presentation of the idea."

"Sometimes I look at Rihanna or Justin Bieber, right, and I think, I wonder if they're gonna live that long - because it just seems like they're so manufactured and controlled that it's a disaster maybe waiting to happen."