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I'm a very self-conscious person.
I am kind of, by definition, a hipster.
I think I'm designed to regret everything.
I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.
You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.
Songs are songs, and to reduce them is to waste them.
I moved to New York in 1989 and went to study at NYU.
I miss producing. I hate it when I do it, but I love it.
If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.
There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.
I don't think I've ever made a claim to startling originality.
If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.
I don't see myself as necessarily a very creative person. I'm a technical guy.
I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.
To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
I always wished I had a more flamboyant streak, but it's just not what I'm made of.
There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.
My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.
DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.
A lot of the time, you compromise., which is fine - it's part of not being totally insane.
Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.
When I was a kid, when the Walkman came out, I was sold. I listened to music 24 hours a day.
I don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from.
For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.
Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.
I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.
I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.
Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.
I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop.
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.
I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos.
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.
It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet.
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.
I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person.
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.
After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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.
My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.
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.
I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.
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.
One of my favorite photographers is Ruvan Wijesooriya, who takes most of the LCD photos. His work is incredibly colloquial and raw.
I think that not being all that overwhelmed by good reviews is a luxury. I'm like a rich person who says he doesn't care about money.
With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
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.