“I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they...” — Winston Marshall Quote

I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

When we first started touring, we were going to these towns we'd never otherwise go to, never otherwise see, and that's sort of why we like being in a band. But we started playing these bigger rooms and not even seeing the towns.

England's just very cynical.

Somebody told me about a band that works out their whole set as if it was one song. They learn the whole set as one piece, so they know how the dynamics of it work. It's really difficult to do, and you can only really do it while you're on tour, as being in a rehearsal studio is not the same as being on stage in front of an audience.

The media these days are not so much interested in saying things truthfully without distortion, without misrepresentation, without ridicule.

Distortion pedals are just fantastic for not only rehearsing quietly but also for all those moments when you are going to play in highly compressed environments like radio, television, or recording against compressed loops.

Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn, were under the strong influence of primitive art.

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.