The Press Will Naturally Come And Go

I Heard The Bloc Party Record Japan Before It Came Out In The Uk As They Are On The V2 Record Label. I Think It Has A Great Vibe And Has Great Songs. I Also Think The Kings Of Leon Are Right Up My Street.

The Culture's Changed Massively. The Kids Are Different, With The Phones And Stuff. Even If You Like A Song, You Don't Really Know Who The Artists Are, It's A Lot More Faceless, It's A Lot Less Tribal. When We Were Growing Up It Was Much More Tribal - It Was Rock, It Was Grunge. Now People Like Songs, [but] They Don't Necessarily Know The Song's Origins. I Don't Know How You Would Feel Angry At The World, Or Distressed, Because Most People Are Constantly Distracted Or Consumed.

A Performance Is Only As Good As The Audience You Are Playing To. A Lot Of Times You Feed Off Of The Audience, And We Always Try To Give Them All We've Got And Sometimes You Don't Get A Lot Back, But We've Never Been Dead Whenever We've Performed.

Every Song I've Written, It's About What I've Gone Through, Good Or Bad. It Kind Of Comes Out Of Me, And I'm Grateful For That. I've Got Friends Who Are Back Home Who've Got No Way To Express That, And They're Kind Of In A Different Position In Life. It's Alarming To Me That I've Written Something On My Bedroom Floor When I Was 19 Or Something, And Then There's 50,000 People That Know The Words, And They've Got A Similar Feeling. If You Thought About It Too Much, Your Head Would Blow Up.

It's A Completely Different Way Of Working When You Have Your Own Place For Recording. It's Like If You Were A Painter, And You Do Loads Of Painting, And You Just Pick Which Paintings You Want To Exhibit. It's A Much Nicer, Freer Way Of Making Work; You're Not Limited To Anything, And You Can Make These Cool, Weird Little Albums.