Calum Hood
If we live in an infinite universe, it would be almost ignorant to think that aliens don't exist.
I had all this attention from all these girls that would have never liked me in school, coming up to me and saying things, handing me numbers.
Family is everything.
We were just really into music and every lunch we'd be inside playing guitars and jamming out so not much social action was happening.
I was just very reserved. The band's helped me have a voice.
I've been listening to a lot of looped jazz stuff: Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius.
Especially with past experiences, it has made me more wary of things.
I think we weren't afraid of kind of pushing the boundaries in terms of how an album could collectively sound.
When I was younger, my sister was a big fan of R&B - Usher and Chris Brown. I got a lot of my love for R&B from her. She used to sing all the time, and I used to wonder why I wasn't as good as her.
When I was about 14, I got on the bus, and my sister's friend's brother handed me a burnt CD that said 'American Idiot,' and that was pretty much the first time that I fell in love with music. I couldn't stop listening to it. I saw an acoustic guitar sitting around the house, and I picked it up.
Our fanbase have always backed the music. They will follow you through the depths of hell and that's something I love about them.
Coming off the back of our third record, there was a sense of freedom about our ability to write a body of work we could be proud of as we're growing into early adulthood.
We really look up to bands like INXS and Midnight Oil who always stayed true to their roots.
The older you get, the more grateful you are for all of the opportunities, even if you didn't deal with some in the best of ways.
Tampa is the best city in the world.
My family are very spiritual, so a lot of my family see spirits, whether aggressive or friendly spirits.
We try and see as much of the world as we can, but also get up and do eight hours of promo and then sing at a show. You have to find that balance.
I guess that's the overall goal - to be kind of immortalized within the music.
I don't want to make just one type of music.
I really want to evolve as a band with our sound.
Bands like U2 have songs which are almost completely different genres, and that's what I love.
You really need to think what you say before you say it, because everyone's so sensitive now to everything. I'm just kind of terrible at it. You can't really joke around about anything. Not even joke around, you can't say an opinion without being totally judged and disrespected for it. It's horrible.
We looked up to real dudes who had real struggles and used guitars to express that.
With the whole comparison to One Direction, we only get it in certain places of the world.
I don't think you can beat the feeling of coming back home, sleeping in your own bed and seeing your family.
We love rock music and we want to hear it back on mainstream radio.
Everyone has felt they kind of sucked sometimes, especially with us when the band first started and we didn't fit into anything.
The first shows we played were after metal bands and everyone hated us.
We've met people who have been in bands for years and they have said things to us like 'You guys are doing a good job.' That's cool to us.
It was hard to rebuild your personal life from the ground up.
You always feel a bit of pressure.
Faith is always important.
A girl that's a musician is just such a turn-on. Creative people who are songwriters.
I like girls in bands.
It's cool that we're able to recollect a lot of the timeline of our band and personal lives, for better or for worse.
Youngblood' opened up a public side to the band again, which was a huge thing for us. It gave us an opportunity to create the fourth record with freedom and confidence in our ability that we could write songs that were taken in by people on a worldwide level.
As you're creating the album, you shouldn't be thinking about what the album is going to be at the end, you should be thinking about what you're doing at that moment.
I guess we share some traits with different boy bands. But we are boys in a band.
It was always going to be a risk to go away, reinvent the band, and come back and release this new stuff, which has evolved.
We're heavily influenced by '90s pop punk bands like Green Day, Good Charlotte, and Yellowcard.
I really like short hair, a sporty girl, anything - if a girl likes me then I'll like her!
It's crazy for us, but we're so grateful for every single person that supported us - not many people where we live get this kind of opportunity to do what they love.
I couldn't imagine being in a band with people I didn't like.
I started playing guitar and when we formed the band; we all said, 'Who's the worst at guitar?' It was obviously me, so I put my hand up and was told that I'd be playing bass.
Sting was a big role model for me, as a bassist and as a songwriter who also sings. I learned a lot from him, and also from Pino Palladino and Tears For Fears.
People don't become gay, bisexual, pansexual, transexual. People just fall in love with another person.Collection: Falling In Love
Just live right now, and be yourself, it doesn't matter if it's not good enough for someone else.Collection: Being Yourself
Always try to create positivity. Even when people aren't.Collection: Positivity
One time I tried to marry a chicken.Collection: Chickens
I am hungry at the most inappropriate times.Collection: Inappropriate