70 Quotes by James Righton

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.

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.

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

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.

Tom Rowlands does not rush a record.

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

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.

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.

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