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.

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'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 feeling to it. Somehow, something bigger than just the words on the page happens when you hear it all together. Sometimes I notice when I'm DJing, I put on a lot of tracks that feature vocals. I guess for me, it's just from growing up loving songs, so maybe I'm geared slightly more towards dance music that features a song element.

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 understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

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

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

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