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.

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

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.

When I first started doing stuff outside of Hot Chip, I got the impression that Joe Goddard was a bit concerned. But I said, "I really want to record these songs quickly and not turn them into dance music." And he was fairly supportive - maybe not wholly supportive. But then you learn that no one's about to quit the band, so it seems good and healthy.

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

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.

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