In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.
I’d get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it’s passionate!
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you’re together, which is that you just like each other.
I just want to make the best music of all time with my best friends.
Life is miraculous, even when it’s disastrous, it’s still incredible, I’m fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I’m fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.
A band’s only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.
When the lights go down, that’s 30,000 peoples lives colliding. Everyone there working is working for that moment, everyone watching is watching for that moment. It’s when you’re all in agreement about what you’re all doing so it’s a wonderful feeling of togetherness and possibility.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we’re fine with it.
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
I don’t speak particularly well. That’s one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
I’m just a public-schoolboy. I’ve got a degree. I’m from a middle-class family in Devon. I’ve got no story.
I’d rather be a comma than a full stop.
I don’t drink, I don’t take drugs, I don’t smoke.
More idiots should just shut their mouths.
Cool to me is following what you believe in.
I don’t mind not being cool.
Music comes from a place we don’t know.
Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.
The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph – it’s eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can’t do that.