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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...

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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.

DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.

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...

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