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"I was just obsessed with Michael Jackson, obsessed with Stevie Wonder, and Ray Charles is another one who I really grew up with a strong influence. I guess it’s kind of like black music from back when is what I really love."

"Kaskade’s been the biggest help for me; he was the one who broke me into America back in 2011, and he’s invited me to be a warm-up DJ for him."

"There’s also this weird thing in dance music where the performance is almost totally eliminated. You don’t go to a show to see flashy antics from the DJ; if you do I think you’ve missed the point somewhat."

"Putting on a tour, it’s the biggest capital gamble you can do; it’s all about bums on seats and selling tickets – it’s pretty hard work, so to get someone to underwrite the tour, it’s a blessing really."

"Age, looks, gender – it doesn’t matter, and as long you always have something important to say and do, it never will."

"We had a lot that we wanted to cram on. It’ll probably be really irritating to listen to but we’ve gotta get it out of our systems, I guess.”

"We’ve been touring Australia for seven years with this project, and it’s a big wide world out there, man."

"It’s pretty strange, it’s like we’ve made a fun record about dying."

“When people say ‘soul survivor’, I used to take that for granted until after I got sick and was able to come back. I now have a lot more respect for that title.”

“…I did feel a lot of pressure from the EP and I think that really affected me for the first few months of deciding on where I was gonna record the album, and writing and stuff."

“Sure, it’s frustrating that people didn’t see the band as ‘legitimate’ or whatever even though we’d been around and had paid our dues, but it helped our drive more than it frustrated us."

“You know, you’re in a band and you have songs that don’t really fit with what the band are doing so you just record them yourself and kind of keep them to yourself."