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

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

I'm quite interested in what words can be, if it's very few words, and it's a kind of club track but it has a sort of uplifting or spiritual kind of feeling to it. Somehow, something bigger than just the words on the page happens when you hear it all together. Sometimes I notice when I'm DJing, I put on a lot of tracks that feature vocals. I guess for me, it's just from growing up loving songs, so maybe I'm geared slightly more towards dance music that features a song element.

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

I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.

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