Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right.

I didn't know we'd been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh voice and that's where it comes from?

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

If it's a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill's 'Forgive Them Father' the most, especially the harmonies.

Italy is best for holidays.

Yeah, we're definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it's all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of 'getting together with people just for the sake of it' kind of thing.

I often find myself listening to the 'Shipping Forecast' on Radio 4. At first, I am usually wondering what time it is, but then, because often I'm on the other side of the bed and I can't be bothered to turn it off, I just listen and it becomes very relaxing.

Gigs in Scotland are always so much fun.

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter.

Neil Amin-Smith and I met playing in classical orchestras when we were children. We are from the same area of London. We met Jack Patterson when we were studying at Cambridge University, and decided to start the band together.

We were introduced to a lot of dance music that we were blown over by. Kidnap Kid we love, WOZ, and Rudimental.

Well, the band name is just a stupid thing. We used to live in Russia and our friend there, a Russian lady just kind of described my sister as a clean bandit.

I'm certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don't do within our projects. We produce our music together and I direct and edit the music videos.

Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

We watch the MOBOs every year and it has always been a dream to be involved.

I'm just so honored to be able to travel around the world and play songs.

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.

We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.

Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.

Mozart's House' had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.

I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.

Well, Sean Paul we've always wanted to work with.

Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we've always kind of done it.

I wouldn't call myself a singer.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

I've always been interested in alternative family structures.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.

Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.

Me wanting to play in Israel is not me making a statement about what's going on there.

If it's a Clean Bandit-related stress, there are smooth things they play on Classical FM that can help, such as Barber's 'Adagio for Strings,' or there is a choral version of it too that is very relaxing.

I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.

Glasgow with its art and music scene has so much going on, it's attractive to people and there seems to be a good vibe up there.

The Tories will do everything they can to squash anything threatening to them and I think the involvement of young people in politics is threatening to them and we just don't really care.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I never identified as a woman too much, because women aren't too different from men. But with all the #MeToo and Time's Up stuff, I thought about it differently.

We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.

I'd do another Cortana advert, I don't see why not.

Being in adverts, it's a tricky thing, I suppose.

It was an honor to work with Julia Michaels.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

For me, I'm not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for me to engage in party politics and hear speeches and have discussions.

We always like working with really powerful female voices.

I think fame is really dangerous and... I don't really like to get too involved in it all.

We don't really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.