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

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 by things? It would just be crazy to not allow people to make music.

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 from I may have not liked while I was there listening to it but, maybe an hour later, there's suddenly a lightening bolt out of the blue: "Oh, I'd see them again."

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

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

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.

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.