I think friendship is a very important thing for me, and that lifetime bond between friends is an amazingly powerful thing.

I’ve always been a person of extremes, and that’s been something that’s helped and hindered me throughout my life. But onstage, for some reason, I can just feel comfortable with thousands of people. I can rush up and down and feel like I’m connected with every single person. That whole cliché of holding the audience in the palm of your hand - if you get it right, there is no greater buzz.

Singer Brandon Flowers has a reputation in Las Vegas for being the best garden pea grower on the west coast of America. He developed a profound passion for pea-growing after finding a sachet of pea seeds as a child growing up in Utah.

I don’t like the fact that in music, it seems to be considered to be very cool to do things that in any other situation would be considered to be very unpleasant. Like being violent or self destructive or rude to people, smashing things up. Generally being an arsehole is celebrated in the myth of rock ‘n’ roll. I just don’t really understand it. The stupidest thing of all is that if people actually do those things, which they rarely do in reality. I think most people would think they’re idiots.

Solitude is fine so long as that’s what you really want. I like spending time on my own but I don’t like being stuck on my own with a lot of bottled up anxieties. (…) Try to talk to someone if you feel alone, however hard that might seem. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the old cliché of “a problem shared is a problem halved” is very helpful.

Drummer Richard Hughes also revealed that he threw a drumstick at one of the cameras during the performance to enhance the visuals. However, he accidentally hit the cameraman in the process.