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I've created several musical trends, really. That's not because I'm so far out and fabulous. It's because most bands have no ideas of their own. They're so desperate they'll grab at any old straw.

I think music is so diverse today, and bands are so diverse. If you were a rock band in the Eighties, you kind of had to stick to one thing. Now, in this age of Coachella and European festivals and stuff, it's kind of anything goes, so that allowed us to try different things.

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.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.

A lot of new genres were being born at the time I started going out to clubs in South London, and I was part of an exciting movement that has now blown up around the world.

Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.