We went to school together, so we’ve known each other since we were young. At age 15 or 16 we started making music and have been making it ever since.

You can embellish things [that really happened] sometimes and get a line for a song. Some of it’s very literal. Some of it’s very abstract.

Obviously, we’re not a million miles apart ? [we both have] guitars, drums, bass and keyboards. But within those instruments, we’re different. Unfortunately, people have been saying I resemble Chris Martin. I just don’t need...

We recorded and produced it ourselves. We built our own studio and got all of the equipment ourselves. The sound of our new record is very different [from the previous records.] Every [album is] just...