Chuck Inglish

A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.

The Cool Kids are Chicago. Me being from Michigan is a part of that dynamic.

I want to be a band that people haven't seen.

I'm not really gonna stop. We've got so much stuff to do, so many songs we talked about, so many things to record.

I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi.

Fans are essential in the California heat. The ones with movement keep the air flow active - I need that.

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

I wanted to give 'Droptops' away for free because it doesn't sound like my album. It's way more like a nostalgic Cool Kids sound, but that's me too.

I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.