Quotes from Luke Hemmings

We want to be an important band to people for the right reasons. It's always been a goal.

What makes us so different from anything else is we're a rock band with a boy band fanbase.

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 our fans were the same age as us when we came out. I think they grew up with us.

If there's a problem we can talk to anyone in the band. There's other people around us. Everyone in the band are on the same level. We know and help each other.

We're not the new anything. We're the first 5 Seconds of Summer.

Maybe there will be a point where we'll do separate things, but 5 Seconds of Summer will always be a home for this band.

Michael Hutchence is an incredible frontman and a huge influence on me. I really love 'Mystify' and 'New Sensation.'

Bands really are big for a lot of the same reasons, like in the Seventies and Eighties up into the 2000s where we are. It's all pretty similar reasons why they're big.

Those American '90s bands shaped us.

You should never drink before you go on stage. That's a very bad idea if you want to give your all to your fans.

My dad loves Pearl Jam so I had to like them as well.

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.

We don't have Warped Tour in Australia.

Good Charlotte is the reason I started playing guitar.

You know who does really good chips? Australian KFC.

The first album was written over the course of a couple of year while we were supporting One Direction on tour. It was us trying to figure out exactly who we were as a band.

I think when we started we were just four dudes from school and we did all the sweaty pub gigs.

The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.

I'd want to play the Sydney Opera House.

We came together in such an organic way. We felt we had something special even when we were starting in the outskirts of Western Sydney.

The first gig we ever played was at a pub in Sydney called the Annandale Hotel to approximately 12 people.

When you're driven to your absolute limit, working 14 hours for 14 days straight, you have to know what you want, and not listen to all this other crap outside.

Even if you're not in a new place every day and not in the music industry, your tastes in music and fashion and everything are going to change drastically between 16 and 21.