You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better. - Dan Hawkins

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that is your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing. - Dan Hawkins

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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now. - Dan Hawkins

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer! - Dan Hawkins

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we have got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world. - Dan Hawkins

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me. - Dan Hawkins

We're real people and we are a band that is been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we have always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music. - Dan Hawkins

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we do not play Madison Square Garden for this album. - Dan Hawkins

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead. - Dan Hawkins

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The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be. - Dan Hawkins

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I have played that at every gig I have ever had. And that is my starting point in the studio. - Dan Hawkins

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book. - Dan Hawkins

In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on. - Dan Hawkins

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause. - Dan Hawkins

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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music. - Dan Hawkins