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“I mean the tracks just came out and as soon as they were recorded, sometimes in rehearsal, they were pretty much near done."

"Dude, I’m such a train-wreck for the most part, as an artist."

"In some ways, we don’t really understand how big I Love It has been. Even though we [learn] of all these places that it’s ending up, we’re not out there, in the world, hearing it."

"We’ve been sort of pretty distant and absent from the scene for quite a while, and we’ve been focusing on getting the new material ready to go and we tend to fuss over the details."

"If you engage too much with social media you risk chewing up your focus, and you start to put your focus on what other people think, or expect of you."

"We arrived in Heathrow and got picked up by a guy we didn’t know who just whisked us off to Wales straight away – it was pretty surreal after the 24-hour flight to be heading into the unknown with this stranger, it was really cool.”

“We’re used to just playing shows around here where 90 per cent of the crowd are our girlfriends’ parents or drunk friends that feel obligated to come to shows."

“Some kind of music is like real smartypants, you know, like Radiohead or something – nothing against them, I never heard their stuff actually but I know that they’re real smart."

“I can’t really record vocals in my house because the walls are so thin. I bumped into my neighbour on a bus the other day and he said he could hear me sometimes!”

“We became such a strong live act with all the touring for so long, we didn’t want to leave that fire that we’d built up over the last couple of years touring.”

“I go to the place that used to be [Red Hill performance space] The Hangar one night a week so I can just sit with music there. It’s cool."

"There’s an energy in the band that I’ve never felt before."