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" Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing. "

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" It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a year or so later. "

Ted Dwane

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" Touring is something I do really well. "

" When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it. "

" If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you. "

" Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we'll ever survive as a band and be happy. "

" A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere. "

" I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs. "

Ted Dwane

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Career

" Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity. "

" There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.' "

" We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a one-man thing: it was indeed a band. We wanted to give the impression of a family business, and we just liked the ring of Mumford & Sons. "

" There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make. "

" We have this spirit that's just uncrushable. "

Ted Dwane

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Spirit

" We kind of are Okies at heart. I don't really know what an Okie is, but I feel like one. "

" It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.' "

" Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I think it is for most bands. "

" I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations. "

" Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives. "

" Can't cook. Can't, I dunno, do paperwork. I don't know, what else can't we do? I'm not to be trusted with other people's animals. "

" As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars. "

" We don't make music except for the joy of making music, really - and meeting people and sharing ideas. "

" I play the drums really, really badly. "

" None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.' "

Ted Dwane

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" You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands. "

" As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community. "

" We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments. "

" Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird. "

" We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music. "

" I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. "

" I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there. "

" We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time. "