Quotes from Kemp Muhl

I want to be riding with the Four Horsemen!

If you're going to have a rock band, you've got to do it while you're young.

I think every man should have a pair of boots. They're really sexy. Leather boots, cowboy boots, it depends. I really like the ones from the Seventies with the heels.

Sean and I are fighting so many cliches, it's funny. But ultimately we just want to play people the songs we wrote while we were in our pajamas, in love.

It's definitely a hard pill to swallow; the son of John Lennon and a model having a band together is a cliche. But I think that once people get past that I think there's been a really warm reception to our music.

I grew up with a lot of classical music around.

When Sean and I are old, we're just going to compose weird abstract symphonies.

Sean was a lot shyer lyrically in his solo career. I think because his father was such a great lyricist it was hard to tackle that.

We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.

I started writing songs with my best friend Eden Rice when were in our early teens. We performed together at local coffee shops in suburban Atlanta as Kemp and Eden, until fate intervened and we were separated.

I think it's now really feminine, jaunty-cool to carry a little clutch like you would a football.

Well, I didn't go to Julliard or anything. I'm basically self-taught. When I was younger, I wrote folk songs on a guitar my father gave me.

We have entered an age where religious ideologies and nuclear technology coexist. This alone is a terrifying concept, plus the fact that humanity is like Icarus, flirting with how close we can get to the sun of technology before our wax wings melt.

When Sean came to meet my parents, the first thing my dad did when he picked him up at the airport was to take him right to a shooting range. My dad was like, 'I want to see how he shoots.'

I come from a Catholic Republican military family in Georgia - the antithesis of Sean's hippie-artist-peacenik background.

We're pretty much Luddites when it comes to demos; we don't do anything too elaborate or high-tech.

Very few empowered couples work together as peers.

Some of the greatest guitarists, historically, have had no chops, they've just had great taste. I know a lot of musical school kids who just have no taste.

We love creating these fantastical worlds, and that really comes from things like 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'I Am The Walrus.'

My father is a retired army colonel, and my family is into hunting.

Because I'm a little ADD, I would like to incorporate even more facets to my career eventually, such as writing and directing films.

Everyone has this idea of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin: the woman being pretty and prancing around while the guy writes all the songs.

When it comes to touch and feel as a musician, style is infinitely more important than chops.

We want to return to an era when we think music was better basically but still infuse it with something modern.