Winston Marshall

Every day is a learning day.

Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.

We know what we like in music, and we got into music to try and give back what we got out of it.

We formed the band because we wanted to tour. That was our common interest.

I don't understand how those old bands did it. We worked out early on that if we did three gigs in a row and went out afterwards, we'd lose our voices. We know our limits.

It's always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they've seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we've earned their applause.

Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French.

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.

We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band.

The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.

We like being English, but we're not that patriotic.