We intentionally didn't want to release anything when we were very young, I suppose, because we had a lot of foresight. Stuff can come back to bite you in the ass. Know what I mean?
I suppose I view my behavior in such a unique way. I frame it as an artist and maybe kind of make excuses for it. I suppose I romanticize my own life when I write. I always try to think whether it actually is quite romantic.
You feel like you want something, but you don't actually know what that is. I remember waking up the other night and really craving something, but not knowing what it is. That feeling has been prominent throughout my whole life. I think I try and fill that thing with lots of different things. I can't really stay still. I can't really not be stimulated. It's kind of a search of constant stimulation through other people, substances and stuff. I think that's what our lyrical content is about.
I think I couldn't give myself any advice apart from just do exactly what I want.
Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.
There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.
I think everything in life is an evolution, isn't it?
We now live in a world where accessibility is paramount. So I think we just juxtapose that a little bit and maybe play the internet like a game because we don't like to be exposed as individuals, we like to be an entity.
I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better.
I think that the internet is a beast of burden.
I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.
I think early on I was really into ambient music and like American original Emo.
I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.
I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.
What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write.
I think one of the dangers of humor is becoming seduced by it and sacrificing the story for a few laughs.
I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.
So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite.
When I was young I was one of those kids that got pulled onstage at a Green Day concert. That was pretty awesome.
A band that we supported called Blackfish in Manchester, played the most insane gig I've ever been to. Everything was set on fire, and then they came on and played one of the coolest gigs I've ever seen.
There's no coherent stylistic genre specific advice that I could provide.
There's a point when you're dating someone where you become aware of all the things you kind of thought you couldn't depart from. You kind of build all of these nostalgias and sort of antiquated memories in your mind, and when you're at the point during the breakup, you realise, "you know what, it actually takes a bit more than all this bullshit".
The main reason we understand what we're doing is because we're the individuals doing it. One of the things that surprises me is that all the songs are about me, and it's cool that people care.
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