A biography for Luke Hemmingshasn’t been written yet.
“You know who does really good chips? Australian KFC.”
“I think for a band like us, we're all really close friends. We grew up and went to school together. We're not by ourselves.”
“I would ban guns in the States. It's just such an epidemic that's been happening for so long.”
“Our influences are more rock acts and it's special that we've got that bond from school.”
“I had the Slash 'How to Play Guitar' DVD. I just wanted to be the best guitarist, like, ever. My brother played guitar, and he taught me 'Smoke on the Water,' and I played it over and over again for ages.”
“As a band, when we started, that was all we were good at. It wasn't 'we've got to be a guitar band'; if we did anything else we wouldn't have been any good.”
“The only way to be original in your songwriting is to write about your own experiences, and I think that's what we try to do as a band.”
“Our lives are intertwined. We have individual lives and this beautiful band that we started when we were so young. It holds such a special place.”
“Lie to Me' is a great song.”
“Coming home is what helps keep us sane.”
“We were the band guys who liked All Time Low and they had lots of girl fans and now we are seeing those band dudes coming to our show.”
“We've just grown up and the sound has grown up with us.”
“I love Michael Hutchence from INXS and what he used to wear.”
“At the start of the band's career, I had ideas for songs and thoughts I figured out, but at the time I wasn't sure how to write music or to finish a song. So for me to have finished a whole album on my own is a huge feat. That would be impressive to 15-year-old me. I think he'd be stoked.”
“There were some relationships that weren't quite in line with the way we want to do things and the way that we want to be perceived by a lot of people.”
“Teeth' came about after a month or two long blur of writing and pushing ourselves to go a step further than 'Youngblood.' It was a tumultuous time in my life and the lyrics in the song definitely reflect that.”
“I don't know anything about the Chicago Bears, but I know a few things about bears. I know they eat fish out of rivers sometimes. They like salmon. They're cuddly-looking, but they're very vicious.”
“When you start a band like we did - we started with pretty pop-punk roots - the whole plan is to get out of the whole town and to make something of yourself.”
“I think at the start of writing it was less intense topics, and then once I broke the seal I was more comfortable writing about harder things, and going through family history.”
“I started writing songs on my own and trying to push myself in that way, and then I stumbled into it being a separate project.”