Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.
My philosophy at the moment is that I'm great - and so is everybody else. You have to fit your own oxygen mask. That's really my philosophy now: our band is the best band in the world. And so are all the other bands.
I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke.
It's more egalitarian on the Internet - anyone can put anything up. But in terms of the money it takes to allow a band to get good, there's less of it to invest.
I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.
I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.
I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
I don't mind not being cool.
You gotta wear the right trousers if you're gonna be a rock star.
Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.
Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.
When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.
I think everyone in their life goes through challenges, whether it's love or money, kids or illness... You have to really not run away from that stuff.
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
I'm saying One Direction are brilliant! And I'm not kidding. Because their songs are really good.
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.
You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.
Music is split up now into little pockets.
When I'm with my kids, I feel like that's really me. And when we're on stage, I feel that, too.
So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.
I'm not sure if I can whip, but I can nae nae with the best of them.
For people who write songs, it's a gift you're given. You become good at the craft, but you're given the gift.
What was I like as a kid? The same as I am now, just smaller with a higher voice.
Going through something difficult in your life, music, for me, is always a friend and something that helps you to figure things out.
You've got to express yourself in life, and it's better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.