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"Inventing album concepts, storyboards, video treatments, cover art and general imagery is just the best part of being in a band."

"I think it’s a timing thing – you’ve got to strike while the iron’s hot."

“We’ve all been in bands before, but I don’t think we’ve ever been more proud about an album than with this one."

"I mean, it’s only really been two years since we released the first EP. I guess it wasn’t that deliberate, that release, because Charlie and I had just got married and we’d written all these songs and recorded them all in our bedroom."

"I’ve been trying to get something like this going for seven years with SAE. When I first got there I said, ‘You need more live sound!’"

"We were looking at new covers for this set and we decided to do a Daft Punk medley. And, then, they announced a new album and just everyone was posting about it."

"Oh, man. I have like 50 things that are not finished and mastered. It takes so much time! I’m a perfectionist. I don’t want anything shit going out there."

"It’s getting harder each year to make it bigger, brighter and better."

"On the one hand I have these super great amazing perfect bands and on the other hand it’s bands with great songs that are pretty sloppy but they’re really cool."

"It’s quite a privilege for a relatively small Australian band to be having their first trip to the States and doing a tour like that, it’s really exciting."

"Unfortunately, just after we’d signed the deal, and we’d spoken so much about what we were all gonna achieve together, Ajax passed away – which was pretty massive emotion-wise for us right in the middle of writing this album."

"We’ve always tried to take control of every situation and work with the label rather than letting them work for us."