Quotes from Grace Chatto

I don't know a lot of Kasabian's music. I am into rock music but I don't know their stuff.

Yeah, we're definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it's all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of 'getting together with people just for the sake of it' kind of thing.

We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

We always like working with really powerful female voices.

Well, Sean Paul we've always wanted to work with.

Working in Italy can be quite hard because they don't have schedules - we arrive at TV shows and they're like, 'We're not sure when you're on, could be a minute, could be an hour.' We were on their equivalent of 'The Voice' and the timing was determined by whenever the judge decided the time was right. We waited five hours!

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter.

We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.

I didn't know we'd been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh voice and that's where it comes from?

I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.

I'd do another Cortana advert, I don't see why not.

We wanted to be like Radiohead. When they started experimenting with electronic music, it gave us the idea that it might be a cool idea to do.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I tried to join the RAF cadets at school so I could fly a plane but then I realised you had to do all the other cadet stuff like training before they let you in a plane. Then you're roped in for life.

I often find myself listening to the 'Shipping Forecast' on Radio 4. At first, I am usually wondering what time it is, but then, because often I'm on the other side of the bed and I can't be bothered to turn it off, I just listen and it becomes very relaxing.

I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.

Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.

I'm just so honored to be able to travel around the world and play songs.

There's a certain kind of humour in Miley Cyrus' writing, and also a depth.

The Tories will do everything they can to squash anything threatening to them and I think the involvement of young people in politics is threatening to them and we just don't really care.

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

I never identified as a woman too much, because women aren't too different from men. But with all the #MeToo and Time's Up stuff, I thought about it differently.