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.
A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere.
We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.
When we made the first album, it was meant to be a snapshot of Mumford & Sons in 2009.
It's strange to think about the scathing reviews 'Sigh No More' got and then consider that we could win best album a year or so later.
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.
