61 Quotes by Winston Marshall

We called ourselves Mumford & Sons because we liked the idea of an old-fashioned, family-owned store.

2014 was a pretty bad year for me. Quite a lot of loss.

You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.

Once you're out there in front of people, I don't think there's any choice than to just give it your all.

The day we struggle to enjoy what we do and just get the gig over with we'll quit.

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.

I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.

We're not all Christian, so we can't be a Christian band.

England's just very cynical. Like I am. Like we all are.