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"We usually do the album and then say, ‘Shit, how are we going to do this on stage?’"

"When we were around in the ‘70s no one understood us, it all just sounded like horrible noise."

"We grew to a point where this thing that we didn’t expect to be a real thing, especially not a real career, became a real career."

"The worst thing you can do is over-think things, so we just try and keep it as simplistic as possible, and if it has that energy, that physicality to it, we know it’s a keeper."

"DJing is fun, but sometimes it can get a little boring."

"The original idea was for it to be like the Wu-Tang Clan and for everyone to do their own solo album, but I think I’m the only person out of the whole band who’s actually managed to do one."

"It wasn’t that I was out to copy a style, just that I wanted to play music like I was playing when I left school."

"There has never been a better place where our band has been in."

"We don’t give a fuck. We love to play what we like to play, and if you’re on board with that for the last two records, you’re gonna be on board with this one."

"I want to write a ballad but I can’t make one. I want to sing about a red hair girl riding the rocket, but I can’t make it into a ballad."

"It’s a developing thing. It’s not a static situation – our ages, the band – so it’s not the same as it used to be. We’re more mature now. There aren’t the same jitters there."

"It was a pretty shit time, that last few years; we just needed a break."