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“I definitely work hard at [songwriting], you just have to make sure you have experiences and not write so much that you’re not living – that’s what I’ve been trying to do this year, just relax."

“I’ve been excited to get back to Australia and do festivals – they have quite a distinct energy to them, the Australian festivals compared to American ones – so yeah it will be really fun."

"We have never had a plan as such; it’s always instinctive, it’s just the shit we do when it’s the four of us bashing things out.”

“Australia is our final tour before we head back to the UK and start writing again. At this stage, we’re hoping to get an album out there by Spring 2013, but nothing has been planned.”

“I think there’s mixed reactions about it because it’s not really in the same vein as what I was doing at one point, and that’s kind of one of the reasons the band called it quits.”

“I feel like maybe there might be a case for pulling together a band. I don’t see that many dance acts that I like that pull off a live band."

“Eighty per cent of the material you will have never heard. I’ve been working a lot over the last year and decided ‘til the coming spring not to release much."

“I’m coming to Australia with some nervousness, because I don’t really feel like I deserve it right now.”

“I hope that it’s a reflection that I’m growing up a little bit, that I’m getting over myself a little bit."

“I think it’s a quality piece of work. It feels good to be back in the more singer-songwriter arena after spending the last couple of records in a more heavy metal kind of sound.”

"In some ways we weren’t ready for it, in some ways we were – all we can really do is try to control things, to make it about the music and not anything else.”

"When we first started listening to music, everything was Britpop - and that wasn’t what we were about at all. We were much more into what was happening in America around Seattle."