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

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.

In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.

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

When I first started doing stuff outside of Hot Chip, I got the impression that Joe Goddard was a bit concerned. But I said, "I really want to record these songs quickly and not turn them into dance music." And he was fairly supportive - maybe not wholly supportive. But then you learn that no one's about to quit the band, so it seems good and healthy.

I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.