Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had a….

A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it..

We're still making Hot Chip records whilst doing these other things, so why not just try and make music you enjoy making rather than being tied down ….

In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute..

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

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understa….

I've always found it interesting when I'm the person in the audience feeling mismatched by what I've seen or heard. The shows I've taken the most fro….

It's an example of when three people think something's brilliant and one thinks it's terrible. I suppose that's what improvising can be like because ….

It's funny, I played a social gig once - we were playing music that was rhythm based, but it was going in some strange places. Some people came up to….

I think being a DJ is that thing of learning what makes a crowd move. As a DJ, you're constantly learning. It's like chess or something. After a coup….

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 e….

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away..

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,….

I really enjoy playing for hours and hours. DJ sets where you turn up over an hour and you're on a festival stage, people basically expect much more ….

I'm quite interested in what words can be, if it's very few words, and it's a kind of club track but it has a sort of uplifting or spiritual kind of ….

I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to….

It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone feelin….

I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singi….

For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times..

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