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"People come to me with ghost stories everyday."

"Everybody knows what you’re going to play and they want to hear that record, so they’ve given us permission – it’s like this wonderful clean contract with the audience."

"Playing music is one of those go-to things for me, where if I’m feeling angry or bored I put my head down and not notice five hours fly by."

"There were a lot of late nights and long chats about how we wanted to sound. And I think in the end, after a few arguments, we just figured that we're a new band, so we can do what we want."

"I think to get out of the pubs and to play on a bigger stage in Australia without actually having any significant international success is a pretty hard thing to pull off, because in the end you’ve still got to play in Australia. You’re not going anywhere else."

“I’ve put my whole heart and soul into this thing.”

“I recently did a tour like this in the States and it was so nice; it just created this really mellow, yummy vibe, I almost wanted everyone to have a nap!”

"The core Digitalism sound is something very timeless. It’s just a question of instrumentation and gear that you use to produce it. We could play Pogo on a guitar and people would know what song it is."

"You keep on listening more, and as time goes on you think: ‘Ahh, maybe it’s not that good’."

"To be honest, I don’t have an interest in travelling at all."

"You have to step out of that environment into this really sterile, state-of-the-art recording studio, and you can get a little bit of stage fright, like you walk up to the urinal to do a wee and nothing comes out."

"I dunno, I guess I didn't know what were expecting, but we got more, definitely more than we were expecting."