70 Quotes by James Righton

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.

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

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

I think the best pop is always subversive in its nature.

People have used Crowley before, but we wanted to try and get a Crowley-reference song on the radio. We just wanted to have a go, and just try things. There was a kind of 'why not?' attitude.

There are so many bands that after their second record are headlining music festivals, and they're still... suited to playing in a tent. Very few bands when they headline a festival can pull it off.

I remember looking at my iTunes and was like, 'I haven't listened to an album in about three months.' What happened? I was once an 18-year-old kid who would just devour everything and want to know everything about every member of every band I liked. It became this thing where I hated the idea of music, and I didn't know if I wanted to make music.

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

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