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

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.

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.

When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, "Oh, I get that."

I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

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