I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
It's very important, when everyone else seems to be pigeon-holing you, to try and pigeon-hole yourself.
Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.
I'm a modern-day renaissance man.
I've seen the Stones play for three hours, and the crowd knew every song. It's what you want in a headline slot at a festival.
We're in a long line of English people pretending to be Americans and not being as good as Americans.
You can never really tell what your influences are.
One of the things we say in this band is if it's not fun, it's not worth doing.
We're not, like, hard men.
Technically, I suppose I was following all the right behavior patterns of a trustafarian.
We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!'
We get accused of inauthenticity because we play the instruments we play.
If you can't pigeon-hole yourself, who can you pigeon-hole?
Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating.
We were copying lots of bands, like Avett Brothers and Old Crow Medicine Show.
Things got big quickly for us, and playing arenas... It's like - and every band will tell you this - you don't see any of the town.
I want to bring UCB to England. We don't have anything like it.
New York - it's the center of the world.
We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.
I regret a couple of wardrobe decisions.
Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.
We look at our albums as stand-alone pieces of art and also as adverts for our live shows.
My dream is to tour for 50 years.
We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.
The less I try, the cooler I am.
England's just very cynical.
Every day is a learning day.
We play the instruments we love.
You're always thinking about making new music.
We're all big fans of bluegrass.
