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. ”