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"I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around."
"David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him]."
"The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen."
"It just seemed like there were loads of bands in England writing about walking down the street and falling in love."
"I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it."
"I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that."
"It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix."
"I think that as a teenager in England, it's very hard to avoid Europe. You see Barcelona, and you see all those places as a youngster. You go there on school trips and everything, but America is like a different planet."
"You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion."
"It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London."
"I don't even know what success is."
"I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away."
"I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over."