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An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.

Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has.

Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

You can't judge an album by a single song; it's like judging a book by only reading a single chapter.

I guess the idea of doing albums in their entirety, in sequence, appeals to people. I guess it's the memory of being able to hear the music in the way it was originally presented.