Joe Goddard quotes:

I still love how Phil Spector turned teenage experiences into wonderful symphonies, but I find it a little more difficult to put myself in that place.

The chemistry of making the songs is often about being inspired by each other and responding intuitively.

People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.

It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.

I really don't want to copy something to a great degree, but I love taking tiny ideas and putting them together.