It's incredibly cool that R & B artists like Kanye and the Weekend, who from a completely different genre to us have tapped into 'The Hurting.'

Having lawyers involved never leads to good things.

Our own lives always influence the way we write.

For a lot of bands, the London club scene very much starts to become more important than the music they create. Which we never want to happen.

I like the country, the peace and quiet, because the music business is so hectic.

When I get some time off, I don't even want to see people half the time.

Every album is like starting our career over again. We don't get blase, we don't get lazy.

In England, people get bored very quickly. People aren't satisfied with one thing. You can have hits, but to stay there you have to start doing new things.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

People forgot about us, which was what we wanted. We could be left alone without any pressure to make music.

In the music business, we're much better off staying in Bath - we don't get involved in the competitiveness, where you've got to be seen in the right places and music kind of takes second place.

I hate touring beyond measure. I don't like all the travelling and the hotel rooms. But the hour and a half on stage each night keep me going.

We've always been slammed by most of the British press. They probably hate us because we're too normal and incredibly honest.

And I think the first LP was perhaps too precious. It was our life's work up to that point; there was so much pain in trying to make the perfect statement. We couldn't relax and I think most people missed what we were trying to say.

I couldn't deal with the fame, the pressure and everything else.

We've never been a musically fashionable band. We've been successful, but I think that has something to do with us never following the trends.

It's definitely a joy when you make a record to know you are doing it for the right reasons: You want to do it and that you think you have something valid to offer.

We were blessed that we were successful when we were. That enabled us to live in a comfortable fashion.

We're both getting older, our children are starting to leave home. But I can say that I'm just as passionate a songwriter now in my 50s as I was in my 20s. But instead of talking about the general kind of angst that I felt as a teenager, I'm writing about more specific issues.

I have no preconceived ideas; I gave that up a long time ago… The only thing we can do as musicians is make an album we like, and an album that we consider to be incredibly good.

More than anything else, being famous just didn't agree with me.

Japanese Breakfast has recorded a beautiful, ethereal reimagining of 'Head Over Heels.'

I view making records as a journey.

We were touring the States tied to a load of drum machines and sequencers and synthesizers, playing to hundreds of thousands of people and yet feeling strangely removed from the music.