Quotes from James Righton

The most sacred thing is our family and our daughter and each other, everything else matters, but it doesn't really matter.

Keira was in America when we were having our moment in the sun in the U.K., so she was oblivious. But over the years, she came to loads of gigs and loved 'Surfing the Void.'

In the band's early days people didn't really know what we were, and they decided to shout at us before listening to the music.

You have to set the bar higher and higher.

For me, my favourite music was things like The Bee Gees, ABBA and 'The White Album.' The 70s is the period that I love more than anything.

I remember feeling incredibly bored all the time, and I spent a lot of my time dreaming about what was going on in London, and fantasising about being there.

I'm a '70s guy at heart. I play a lot of Bowie and 10cc at home.

Klaxons was a really great chapter in my earlier life, and now I'm older and happy doing other things.

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

There's a few bands that I always read about that complain about everything: the travel, the fans... you know they could be working a 9-to-5 job. They should get out if they don't like it. They should just get out. It's quite easy.

Even things like Abba - I think it's always got a dark, subversive element to it. You've got these four blonde Swedish people singing about their relationships breaking up while they're all going out with each other.

I just fell in love with someone who happens to be amazing. We had a beautiful wedding and there was a lot of love.

It's expensive being in a band, way cheaper buying a laptop.

When you're growing up you also like to go out and party a lot, and the music that we would hear going out would be techno and electronica. And earlier stuff like the Prodigy. It kind of stood out from everything else. Y'know, 'Firestarter,' where did that come out of? It sounded alien and otherworldly.

Governments don't get elected saying, 'We're going to lower GDP next year,' governments get elected on saying, 'We're going to increase prosperity and the happiness and the wealth of our nations.' But that kind of capitalism will only lead to the destruction of our planet.

People have used Crowley before, but we wanted to try and get a Crowley-reference song on the radio. We just wanted to have a go, and just try things. There was a kind of 'why not?' attitude.

I'm less self-consumed, less narcissistic, I'm more selfless, more considerate. I've just grown up. It's a slow growth, because I was in a band for ten years. I was given the card to be able to live an adolescent life forever. You're celebrated, the more of a child you are.

There are so many bands that after their second record are headlining music festivals, and they're still... suited to playing in a tent. Very few bands when they headline a festival can pull it off.

We've never been ashamed of the fact we are, first and foremost, a pop band.

To play the ultimate Reading set, you need to freak yourself out for a few days beforehand.

We like music, we pretty much collect it, but I'm not geeky about it, although I'm usually in the record shop nearly every day.

If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It's more outward-looking music than introspective.

New Rave was like the 60s - if you can remember it then you weren't there.

The elements of rave that we try to incorporate are the fun aspects.