"I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight."
"I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer."
"I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans."
"I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing."
"Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging."
"As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths."
"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."
"We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly."
"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 don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home."
"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."
"One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous."
"The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go."
"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."
"I don't prepare very well. I'm always sort of wrapped up in what I'm supposed to be doing in the moment, and then I suddenly appear someplace, and I'm really not prepared."
