Quotes from James Righton

We have high expectations and a high level of standard we try to reach in everything we do. Ideas get through if they are good enough, songs get their way in.

Being my own boss means I'm a nine-to-five dad Monday to Friday, it's the best thing ever. It's the most difficult, insane, wonderful job you could ever do, but it's more important to hang out with your daughter.

There's nothing better than looking out into the audience and having a whole sea of glowsticks staring back at you.

It was kind of obvious to everyone around me that I wasn't going to stay in the town I grew up in - I knew I had a dream of becoming something else.

I always liked music that was melodic, but that had something a bit more wonky and odd going on too.

I've always been attracted to odd chord changes and interesting melodies.

We want our audience to enjoy themselves, we want every gig to feel like an event - of course there are musical elements of rave to our sound, but we wouldn't strictly classify ourselves as that.

There was a lack of inspiration in London. There were a lot of dregs of the Libertines' movement, and we didn't want to do that. We wanted big melodies and hooks, organic melodies that could fall apart at any moment.

There was always talk that the Horrors didn't have any substance but I think they're proving people wrong.

It's fair to say I'm becoming addicted to endorphins.

The Smiths did that well, putting words in pop songs you wouldn't hear anywhere else.

There's a lot of crowd interaction at our shows. If they're giving off good vibes, we'll give good vibes.

Drummers are tough.