James Murphy

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

Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

When I want to DJ what I think to be the best-sounding place in the world, I go to this place in Sapporo, Japan, called Precious Hall, which has kind of a custom sound system with a much lower ceiling and a smaller room.

To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

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

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 was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

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

Those early years in New Jersey were amazing. We lived in a really small town with tons of kids my age. There were fields and woods and a creek - it was a pretty ideal place to be a little kid.

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.

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.