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"I am involved in a number of different projects, although I can’t ever see myself not making music. Whether that’s done under the OTEP banner remains to be seen.”

North America is growing each time we go and there are lots of reggae bands there wanting to play with us and we were blown away by what they were telling us about how people appreciate our sound there.

"With this record, it felt like we’ve experienced so much growth over the last six years writing with other people, we needed to take that growth to the next level internally."

“To spread our live show round the world was just the logical progression for us, and we’re still working to perfect it."

"We didn’t want someone who was ‘modern dance’, we wanted the real booty shaking kinda stuff. And I forget how it even came up that we were decided to do stills of sex moves right in the middle, but I don’t know, we thought it would be funny."

“I definitely don’t think we fit into the overnight success story category at all.”

"There are some songs that are more interchangeable than others, but you’ve got to have Kashmir, you’ve obviously got to have Whole Lotta Love… Stairway To Heaven is the only one I’d like to get rid of."

“We’ve had a few line-ups across the years and, you know, you get new people in and they might have a new direction they want the music to go in and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t."

"I’m half-Australian, and I was a bit nervous about the [debut] trek when we went there and whether the guys would get beaten up by bogans or jocks, or whether they’ll not get beaten up and just like have the best time on the beach."

"The room would every now and then be confettied with people that weren't exactly music lovers, but rather avid drinkers including one girl who started heckling at me in the middle of a song."

We felt it was only necessary to sit 96 Bulls down and find out what influences their work - in this weeks' Top Fives.