Musician

Italy is best for holidays.

Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right.

It's so different in the different states, it is sometimes like being in a different country.

Yeah, we're definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it's all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of 'getting together with people just for the sake of it' kind of thing.

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we've always kind of done it.

We don't really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.

For me, I'm not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for me to engage in party politics and hear speeches and have discussions.

I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.

Being in adverts, it's a tricky thing, I suppose.

Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.

I think since our style is different, while jamming we want to let it flow without having any preconceived notions of each other's style. That is the fun of collaboration, I guess.

I'm certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don't do within our projects. We produce our music together and I direct and edit the music videos.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

If it's a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill's 'Forgive Them Father' the most, especially the harmonies.

Mozart's House' had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.

I didn't know we'd been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh voice and that's where it comes from?