In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whatever our personal differences are, there are no bigger fans of this band than the people who are in this band.
Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.
When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.
I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.
The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.
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