Grace Chatto

We don't really think about it in a formulaic way, we just use the different styles as and when it feels right.

I don't know a lot of Kasabian's music. I am into rock music but I don't know their stuff.

We do write our own music.

It's so different in the different states, it is sometimes like being in a different country.

Yeah, we're definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it's all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of 'getting together with people just for the sake of it' kind of thing.

Drake, the way he uses that Auto-Tune has always been attractive, hasn't it?

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.

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

We find it very interesting to call upon different voices as though they were different instruments.

There's a certain kind of humour in Miley Cyrus' writing, and also a depth.

Neil Amin-Smith and I met playing in classical orchestras when we were children. We are from the same area of London. We met Jack Patterson when we were studying at Cambridge University, and decided to start the band together.

I think fame is really dangerous and... I don't really like to get too involved in it all.

We always like working with really powerful female voices.

For me, I'm not that interested in reading newspapers, for example, so the Labour Live event is a really good way for me to engage in party politics and hear speeches and have discussions.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

It was an honor to work with Julia Michaels.

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?

When something sounds good, I don't think any of the connotations matter.

Working in Italy can be quite hard because they don't have schedules - we arrive at TV shows and they're like, 'We're not sure when you're on, could be a minute, could be an hour.' We were on their equivalent of 'The Voice' and the timing was determined by whenever the judge decided the time was right. We waited five hours!

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.

We're kind of influenced by all the different people we meet.

Yeah it would be great to do something with Stormzy.

To work with different singers gives us creative freedom because we can experiment with different sounds on every song.

I think I like attention, but because of the way we are - because we don't have a lead singer and all the videos have so many different people in them - I think people aren't really that sure about who's in the band.

We really want Harry Styles to sing one of the songs that we've got.

We like to party.

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.

Being in adverts, it's a tricky thing, I suppose.

Italy is best for holidays.

I tried to join the RAF cadets at school so I could fly a plane but then I realised you had to do all the other cadet stuff like training before they let you in a plane. Then you're roped in for life.

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.

'A&E' is one of my favourite songs we've made in terms of the production.

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.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

We were introduced to a lot of dance music that we were blown over by. Kidnap Kid we love, WOZ, and Rudimental.

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 wouldn't call myself a singer.

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we've always kind of done it.

Often we make songs with people for us and one for them.

Well, Sean Paul we've always wanted to work with.

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.

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.

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.

I sometimes never really realize what lyrics are saying.

We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.

When we started the band, it was a classical group.

I'm just so honored to be able to travel around the world and play songs.

We watch the MOBOs every year and it has always been a dream to be involved.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.