• VV: It was more like, when we started playing with each other, we just wanted to make our own histories and start over.
• Hotel: There was not much thought put into it. It just seemed like we wanted to set a bit of a ground-zero. So we renamed ourselves, and it's kind of sweet and fun. I guess, in retrospect, you could try and analyze it and find something deep in it, but there isn't anything like that. There was no puffed-up stance on it - we were just sitting in our bedroom with no money and eating bread, and thought it'd be cool.
• VV: It's been really funny with some people in America, because they've been more simple, like, 'You're called Hotel?! As in a place to stay?!'
• Interviewer: Well, Alison's hardly a name to shy away from, surely..?
• VV: 'Yeah,' she grimaces, 'but I've had it forever... It's getting old now.'