We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know. — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
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. — Ted Dwane Copy Share Image
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… — Ted Dwane Copy Share
People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs. — Ted Dwane Copy Share
You leave school, work terrible jobs to pay rent, and that's when you start finding your way in music and forming bands. — Ted Dwane Copy Share
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… — Ted Dwane Copy Share
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… — Ted Dwane Copy Share
Whether people jump up and down when they see us or are completely quiet, it just feels really good that they're connecting. — Ted Dwane Copy Share
There's definitely a negative correlation between the higher the profile and the enjoyment of the gig. — Ted Dwane Copy Share
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… — Ted Dwane Copy Share
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… — Ted Dwane Copy Share
Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I… — Ted Dwane Copy Share
