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

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 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 bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone feeling involved. It was just the most natural, easy process of making music.