Michael Smith, Journalist

"We kind of try and have fun with it, and just make as much different types of music as we could.”

This is an album that feels like you’re sitting down with an old friend sharing a quiet drink and some warm memories, and sometimes that’s all an album should be.

"You have to do this every day on tour actually, to make sure you haven’t lost your mind. So let’s see if I can do it, okay – today is Thursday, October the 11th, my name is Ron Pope and I am in Salt Lake City, Utah. That’s it."

“All these multinational corporations are buying all the artists because they are afraid to have music talk about what’s really going on instead of champagne and fast cars.”

“No, no,” Boney protests. “I write really manly songs about manly things.”

"On this album, it does get a bit heavier at times, but all in all the ideas are smaller and quieter I guess, for want of a better word."

"I went to India to this Vedic place and just sat in this garden for five weeks and had all these herbs and all that. It helped me physically a bit, definitely, and emotionally I suppose, but also I just thought, ‘I really do want to make this record.’"

“It’s been extremely daunting, to take on a whole album and make all those calls, you know, without having seven other people over you on every decision along the way.”

"There have been other genres that I’ve been trying to follow, but [I was] always leaning back. But then the last five or six albums I’ve done have definitely been in the direction of the music I really like listening to."

“We went through a lot of arguments as to what was going to be on it... there were about 30 tracks that could have been on it. They limited me to 11 songs."

“With the Book of Jonah, the overriding theme is Jonah getting the call to do the work of God and finding he doesn’t want to do that and trying to get as far away from that as possible, but ultimately realising there’s no way around it.”

“I lived in Amsterdam for a little bit... and I was walking round the red light district and some other places and it was late at night and just the look in people’s eyes… There are so many stories."