I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.

To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.

I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.

My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.

I started playing in my first band when I was 12. I like to date myself by saying I was in a New Age band when it wasn't ironic; it was actually called new wave because it was new.

If being in a band was my job, then I would quit. This is not a good job. A good job is in financial management.

Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to pick if you want to make lots of money. Whether music or food, the reward always has to be because you love it.

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

What we are as a live band is different to what we are on recordings, but they're both equal versions: they're both LCD Soundsystem, but in very different ways.

Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and you have to go on instinct.

I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

I was into punk rock my whole life. I never listened to the Eagles. I never listened to things that were getting Grammys. So getting a Grammy nomination wasn't bad, it just wasn't meaningful.

I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are.

There's kind of a limitless amount of things I want to do, and when the path seems to open, that's when I try to do a thing.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.

The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.

LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.

I'm basically a schlub.

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.

I had friends who were jocks or whatever... Then, around 12 or 13, kids get cliquish and cruel, and that disgusted me. It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. So I got really aggressive about it and became more of a weird kid.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

One of the things that I think is special about DJing is creating this atmosphere of collectiveness, as if to say, 'We're all in this together.'

For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.

I don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from.

I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

I'm generally a very optimistic guy.

One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.

I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy.

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.

I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.

There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.

I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.

You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.

Producing is always really hard, and you can never tell who's going to be easy to get along with and who's going to be difficult.

Ad Rock from the Beastie Boys gave me a present: it's a boombox with a keyboard and a beatbox in it. You can't make that up.

When I was a kid, when the Walkman came out, I was sold. I listened to music 24 hours a day.

Sound sounds are terrible in the city, but it's great to listen and to walk and listen to people talk to each other. There are birds. You hear spring. I like listening to the city.

I'm a very self-conscious person.

I actually really love people.

I write songs all the time. Sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that I sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about Christmas or New York.

It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet.

I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.