Calum Hood

“When I was about 14, I got on the bus, and my sister's friend's brother handed me a burnt CD that said 'American Idiot,' and that was pretty much the first time that I fell in love with music. I couldn't stop listening to it. I saw an acoustic guitar sitting around the house, and I picked it up.”

“I guess that's the overall goal - to be kind of immortalized within the music.”

“We love rock music and we want to hear it back on mainstream radio.”

“Sting was a big role model for me, as a bassist and as a songwriter who also sings. I learned a lot from him, and also from Pino Palladino and Tears For Fears.”

“I really want to evolve as a band with our sound.”

“I couldn't imagine being in a band with people I didn't like.”

“Family is everything.”

“Coming off the back of our third record, there was a sense of freedom about our ability to write a body of work we could be proud of as we're growing into early adulthood.”

“As you're creating the album, you shouldn't be thinking about what the album is going to be at the end, you should be thinking about what you're doing at that moment.”

“I think we weren't afraid of kind of pushing the boundaries in terms of how an album could collectively sound.”

“If we live in an infinite universe, it would be almost ignorant to think that aliens don't exist.”

“The first shows we played were after metal bands and everyone hated us.”

“I don't think you can beat the feeling of coming back home, sleeping in your own bed and seeing your family.”

“Never look down unless you're helping them up.”

“We looked up to real dudes who had real struggles and used guitars to express that.”

“A girl that's a musician is just such a turn-on. Creative people who are songwriters.”

“Everyone has felt they kind of sucked sometimes, especially with us when the band first started and we didn't fit into anything.”

“I started playing guitar and when we formed the band; we all said, 'Who's the worst at guitar?' It was obviously me, so I put my hand up and was told that I'd be playing bass.”

“I like girls in bands.”

“I had all this attention from all these girls that would have never liked me in school, coming up to me and saying things, handing me numbers.”