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

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

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.

I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.

I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.

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