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In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre.

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Gig, Slightly, Weeks, Bars

We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.

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Records, Like, Charts, Banjo

Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.

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Got, Sort, Rhythmic, Banjo

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.

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Always, Mars, Discontented, Discontent

As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community.

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Thought, Play, Own, Arenas

You look at the instrumentation, and you can't really argue that we set out with commercial aspirations. Banjos and things like that are not part of some formula for global success. But it felt right, and I think there's some value to purity of intention.

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Some, Commercial, I Think, Aspirations

Ninety percent of the time, I'm sitting in a bus driving through some place like the Colorado mountains and thinking, 'Wow, we're not in a pub in London anymore.'

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Bus, Through, Some, Pub

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.'

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Play, Some, I Think, Pub

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

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Self-Awareness, Actually, Actively

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.

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Creativity, Enemies, Biggest, Self-Awareness

We started off as Marcus Mumford, which is our singer's name. But then it very quickly became apparent it wasn't really a one-man thing: it was indeed a band. We wanted to give the impression of a family business, and we just liked the ring of Mumford & Sons.

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Singer, Very, Became, Apparent

None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'

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Doing, Interest, Had, Babel

I think it's a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations.

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Think, I Think, Great Story, Babel

When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it.

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Anything, Studio, Around, Whereas

When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009.

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Made, Meant, Sons, Meant To Be

We were proud of our first two records, but the parameters were pretty narrow. We didn't have full drums, for example. There were just so many limitations to that setup, and we really fully explored them.

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Proud, Pretty, Records, Fully

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

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Kind, Seven, Been, Bass Player

Can't cook. Can't, I dunno, do paperwork. I don't know, what else can't we do? I'm not to be trusted with other people's animals.

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People, Cook, Other, Paperwork

We never thought we'd be commercially viable, and we were proved wrong.

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Never, Commercially, Proved, Viable

We were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they asked us to play live.

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Play, New, Grammys, Thrilled

Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting.

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People, Down, Feels, Up And Down

There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'

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Wolf, Think, I Think, Assert

We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.

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Big, Very, Having, Drummer

We really believe in our music, and it's still heartening to know that it's appreciated, and that's what sticks.

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Music, Appreciated, Still, Sticks

There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig.

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Negative, Enjoyment, Correlation

We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people.

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Thought, Many, Our, Collaborate

People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs.

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Question, Need, Songs, Sincerity

A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere.

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Go, Pretty, Atmosphere, Uninspiring

If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you.

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Green, Battle, Laughed, Chart

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

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Over, Inevitable, Very, Natural Thing

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