Quotes from James Righton

Our intention when we first started as a band, was to be a rave band. We kind of just got it wrong. We tried, but we didn't have the talent or the knowledge to make a rave record.

When I first came to London I thought there'd be this amazing music scene, but I was quite let down by how little was going on and how few ideas there were in music. Bands were writing songs that had no melody, and I wondered, why is that, melody is the most important thing in a song. It's the thing that sticks in your head.

There's a time and a place for a bit of realism, and it's bands like Arctic Monkeys that do it amazingly well. But why do bands have to recycle something that's already been done very well? We wanted to make interesting pop music, and to drop in literary references.

We didn't want to be a po-faced, dull band - we wanted to have fun.

Keira doesn't play much music herself, but 'Breakfast in America' by Supertramp goes down pretty well in our house!

For our third album, 'Love Frequency,' we've gone back to our old style. The album is full of songs that people can sing along to. They're songs full of hooks.

The human race only ever realises how serious things are when it's at your door.

I've learnt to control worry, control doubt, control my inner Virgo.

Tom Rowlands does not rush a record.

I'd say dance is as relevant to us as, say, pop. It's as relevant as electronica, as relevant as ambient or experimental music. I wouldn't say it's something we spend more time on than any other genre.

We like people who come to our gigs to dress sharp and to impress.

I will probably always be remembered as the person who used to be in Klaxons and there was a period of my life when I was trying to wrestle with that.

After touring the first album, we went into the studio and started making music that was influenced by all the freaky folk music we'd been listening to. Lots of Canterbury scene stuff from the 1960s and '70s. Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong.

With the second record there's a need to show that we weren't chancers, that we could play our instruments.

I've always loved melody and pop hooks, slightly left of centre but I have always tried to balance it with songs that have lyrics you can sing along to.

With Klaxons I had an instrument, so I had a job to play keys. Everyone's roles get defined early in bands, so you're 'that guy who does this one thing' and it felt too restrictive doing that.

We have been fortunate enough to travel a lot and we focus heavily on melody and that really is an international language.

Within Klaxons, I never wrote the lyrics. I always wrote the melody and music with the other guys.

When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about being cool, which is a liberating feeling.

All of our albums are actually pretty similar, it's just the production that's different. Our songwriting is always the same.

People in bands should have a responsibility not to moan, not to complain about being in bands. Things could be a lot worse, you know?

Glowsticks look great. They look better than holding your mobile phone in the air.

Moon's' a good movie.

It didn't matter if we put out 'The Dark Side Of The Moon,' we weren't going to be liked by everyone.