Calum Hood

“It was always going to be a risk to go away, reinvent the band, and come back and release this new stuff, which has evolved.”

“My family are very spiritual, so a lot of my family see spirits, whether aggressive or friendly spirits.”

“I'm an Aquarius.”

“The older you get, the more grateful you are for all of the opportunities, even if you didn't deal with some in the best of ways.”

“Especially with past experiences, it has made me more wary of things.”

“We really look up to bands like INXS and Midnight Oil who always stayed true to their roots.”

“Faith is always important.”

“We've met people who have been in bands for years and they have said things to us like 'You guys are doing a good job.' That's cool to us.”

“You really need to think what you say before you say it, because everyone's so sensitive now to everything. I'm just kind of terrible at it. You can't really joke around about anything. Not even joke around, you can't say an opinion without being totally judged and disrespected for it. It's horrible.”

“Our fanbase have always backed the music. They will follow you through the depths of hell and that's something I love about them.”

“I guess we share some traits with different boy bands. But we are boys in a band.”

“We're heavily influenced by '90s pop punk bands like Green Day, Good Charlotte, and Yellowcard.”

“Bands like U2 have songs which are almost completely different genres, and that's what I love.”

“We try and see as much of the world as we can, but also get up and do eight hours of promo and then sing at a show. You have to find that balance.”

“I was just very reserved. The band's helped me have a voice.”

“When I was younger, my sister was a big fan of R&B - Usher and Chris Brown. I got a lot of my love for R&B from her. She used to sing all the time, and I used to wonder why I wasn't as good as her.”

“It's cool that we're able to recollect a lot of the timeline of our band and personal lives, for better or for worse.”

“I've been listening to a lot of looped jazz stuff: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius.”

“I really like short hair, a sporty girl, anything - if a girl likes me then I'll like her!”

“It was hard to rebuild your personal life from the ground up.”