After doing this album, things have definitely changed in the way I write.

Learning from busking we have always written songs around the best way to put on a show.

I imagined proudly smoking a cigar on someone's grave with very pointy high heels on.

I think you are always trying to recreate the feeling you got when you first got into music and how it touched you and made the hairs on the back of your neck stood up.

It is hard to say what is going on at the point where lyrics and music meet. The two simultaneously influence one another.

Performance should be about bringing people in and revealing to them a certain magic or latent state of possibility in a world around through what you do on stage.

We cut our teeth on the local house party circuit which meant we had to make some noise to be heard.

If you're listening to something and it's shit and you think you can do better, start making music.

Sometimes I feel like I want to be five genres at once, to the point where I have no idea where we sit on the spectrum.

I seem to find inspiration in the strangest of places. Street signs, restaurant menus, doctors advertisements.

I have referenced historical information through the Rules of Engagement to provide the cultural context which makes the work more earnest in my eyes.

We have always been open to what might naturally come out, never stressing too much on how we think we should be and just being how we are. For us there has never been much money or anything going round so it's had to be about the fun and love of doing it.

Music is hard and performing stories about your life can be really scary, especially if you're playing solo.

You shine more as an artist when you let go and follow your instincts, not trends.