You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.

There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.

Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel

He sighed. "Does it get tiring?""What?""Always thinking you're right."I smiled. "No, not really. It's other people not realizing I'm right that gets tiring.

People who live in seven houses shouldn't throw stones

Сount dollars, not pennies. Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.