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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.