Danny O'Donoghue

I'd still be closed off in the corner telling everybody to piss off because I don't want to deal with it.

I can't deal with it.

Oh, man, we were in L.A.

and I was standing on the corner, going back to the corner, no, but I was standing on the corner and I was looking at, there was a homeless guy in the corner and there was these, I don't know if you've been in L.A.

recently, but they have these little tiny delivery robots.

Yeah, with the guys.

There was a guy, a homeless guy was like fighting with one of those delivery things on the ground and I was like, what is going on?

and a Waymo came by it's like driverless car comes by and then two of those Teslas those like silver bullet Teslas come by and I'm like we're in the future now like sorry it was like it seemed like a distant far away place it's actually here now it's actually here right now and I was like with AI and all of these crazy things that are going on

do we even remember what it is to be human?

Like, obviously we're of similar age, so growing up, you know, jumpers for goalposts, the fact that there was no phones.

Like, I had a payphone in my house when I was 16.

That's like the first time we had a phone.

We had a payphone.

Or if you were calling your girlfriend, you'd go around the corner and, you know, do a little IDT card or whatever and all this kind of stuff.

But I was like, having the memories of those things is quite important.

But I went up to the studio and we were working on a song and Andrew Frampton, who was like this great writer, and I was like, we're human beings.

And he was like, yeah, but tell me what we're doing if we're not human beings being human.

I was like, whoa.

We're human beings being human.

Brilliant.