With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.