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.
Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.
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.'
I always wished I had a more flamboyant streak, but it's just not what I'm made of.
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.
