Michael Smith, Journalist

"[When] you’re a young band, it’s very hard to say no to them – ‘Cool, let’s go play that festival’ and ‘Let’s go support that band’ – but perhaps what we lacked was a real long-term plan; a long-term goal in terms of”

“When it comes to album time we don’t any sort of restrictions on what we want to put out, and we don’t want to do it to please anyone – we just want to try and have a great album that we love."

"We all love getting on our laptops and getting involved in the music programs coming out. There are so many good music programs and so much you can do with them."

“So we just threw this thing together, but as soon as we started playing it just sounded complete, and Christine Wheeler played a little whistle and flute on the record; she’s from up in the Blue Mountains, so she sometimes gets with us when we play, so it’s a big band – eight of us – and we make a bit of a racket.”

"We’re even talkin’ about the next album at the moment, which is very strange, but we seem to be in a good place. Whether there’s a bit of a backlog I’m not sure really, but whatever’s happened – either that or a sense of mortality – we want to get the ideas out of our heads."

"It is what it is in that moment, and all the great albums… Led Zeppelin, I’m such a great fan of Led Zeppelin, and you know, the tempos speed up and they slow down, and they do on our album as well."

"I worked a gig in the States where one stage was completely run by people riding on bicycles,” John Butler really loves sustainability.

"We wanna play new stuff, but we’re holdin’ because nowadays, with the way that everybody videos and YouTubes, you just can’t keep anything fresh without people putting it out there..."

“Treaty takes you into Yolngu way of thinking. We’re being part of the influence factor. Making a way into the common objectives, reaching it already in your mind with the song.”

"We were going through photo albums and there was a lot of imagery from [Iceland’s capital] Reykjavik, because we travelled there in 2009, and it was nice to be able to revisit that trip and paint a landscape lyrically about our time there."

"We’re still all great mates. We had a beer, I think it was back in May this year, ostensibly to clear the air on where we were going on the new demos and everything, but I think we all came to the conclusion that maybe it’s best to knock this on the head and have one final big show as a send-off."

"And so by the time I got to putting out the record, and by the time it was finished, I realised that I didn’t really feel like talking about all that stuff... because I wasn’t angry anymore."