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Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.

Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.