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Italy is best for holidays.
A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!
Gigs in Scotland are always so much fun.
It was an honor to work with Julia Michaels.
Well, Sean Paul we've always wanted to work with.
Being in adverts, it's a tricky thing, I suppose.
When we started the band, it was a classical group.
I'd do another Cortana advert, I don't see why not.
Playing an instrument is such a wonderful pleasure.
I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.
Keeping your lives as varied as possible is a good thing.
We always like working with really powerful female voices.
Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.
We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.
I've always been interested in alternative family structures.
I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.
We really want Harry Styles to sing one of the songs that we've got.
When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter.
I'm just so honored to be able to travel around the world and play songs.
'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.
There's a certain kind of humour in Miley Cyrus' writing, and also a depth.
We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.
Drake, the way he uses that Auto-Tune has always been attractive, hasn't it?
I do wish we recorded the early stuff we did, because we basically had an album.
Mozart's House' had been on our Myspace page for a while and had about 50 views.
Me wanting to play in Israel is not me making a statement about what's going on there.
I think fame is really dangerous and... I don't really like to get too involved in it all.
I don't know a lot of Kasabian's music. I am into rock music but I don't know their stuff.
We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.
We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.
Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.
We were introduced to a lot of dance music that we were blown over by. Kidnap Kid we love, WOZ, and Rudimental.
We don't really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.
This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we've always kind of done it.
To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.
I find the production in 'A&E' very beautiful, it reminds me of Ace Of Base, the way the bass has that space and the reggae.
We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
If it's a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill's 'Forgive Them Father' the most, especially the harmonies.
Glasgow with its art and music scene has so much going on, it's attractive to people and there seems to be a good vibe up there.
We wanted to be like Radiohead. When they started experimenting with electronic music, it gave us the idea that it might be a cool idea to do.
I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.
We get so many kids telling us that they've taken up the violin or cello. It's really special, and it wasn't really our intention in the beginning.
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?
We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.
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.
Well, the band name is just a stupid thing. We used to live in Russia and our friend there, a Russian lady just kind of described my sister as a clean bandit.
I never identified as a woman too much, because women aren't too different from men. But with all the #MeToo and Time's Up stuff, I thought about it differently.
We have a lot of people onstage. We have a live violin, live cello, live drums played on this kind of massive electronic kit with some acoustic elements built in.
Looking back fondly, I think the first gig we did with the electronic stuff was really exciting because it was in this tiny club, like an Elizabethan building with beams.
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.