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When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference.

If you start off writing an album with a band, the reality is that you're constantly in each other's company, so it's really important that you get on with each other.

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

I know that starting out as a young band, it's really easy to get lost with bands that sound the same or with the plethora of music that's out there.

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.