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.

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?"

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

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

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

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.

There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

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.

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

Mind easily mesmerized when frightened.

He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in.""You say that like being a man's a good thing, " Nyx said.

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

This is the greatest wealth we possess: to know how to direct our labors rightly.

I've always enjoyed playing a little left of center characters. Otherwise I'd be on a soap opera.

When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

It takes a long time to sound like yourself.

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.