Michael Smith, Journalist

It’s never going to float the boat of a post-Nirvana generation let alone post-Sex Pistols, which is a shame really.

“I’m just trying to be as honest as I can and reflect on the core of my life experiences and try and put them into a story or a format which speaks about it but not necessarily spells it out in so many words, alluding to the core elements of what it is to be human.”

"The passing of [American surfing legend] Andy Irons [from an overdose] – I wrote a song about him called A.I. – and it was just the feelings I’d had since he passed."

"We’re just about to release Neon Sun up there as well, so hopefully that’ll get a bit more love and push the band a bit further.”

“I’d wanted to start co-writing to just learn how other people write – I have my own set ways and it’s kind of dangerous getting stuck in ways – you don’t learn anything – and so I wanted to go and write with people that do it all the time."

"We ended up, I think, playing ten shows that week at CMJ. Some of those shows were, like, lunchtime shows to two people, but some of the shows, The Strokes were there, Danger Mouse was there.”

“I’m not one of those people that churns out a song a day. I do write a lot but the majority of it is total shit!"

“I guess a lot of bands say they head off and get in touch with their spiritual side or whatever the reason, but for us it was just a different location and it helped us craft where we were going."

“I’ve just been trying to be pure and let it flow and be honest, so all those different things come out – which probably points to that I have some sort of personality disorder more than anything else.”

“I guess we have a plan in terms of how we want our band to sound at the time and the type of songs, blah blah blah. We don’t have that typical careerist trajectory that I guess a lot of bands that do something like go on an album launch tour probably have."

“So I would take a week or two here and work on the book and then I would take a week or two there and work on the songs – it was a back and forth kind of process."

Cook is harking back to the roots of rock’n’roll as much as she is the kind of country DNA that addressed the early rockers like Presley, Cash, Perkins.