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" A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error. "
Perfect
Guitar
Never
" Apple, iTunes, and streaming services have made the single a more easy thing to access. What that's done has made the album as a collection of songs almost meaningless. But an album that has a concept or story or reason to be an album, if anything, has more meaning now than it ever has. "
Done
Story
Now
" As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums. "
Band
You
Rock
" As soon as you pick up a guitar, you're up against the legends of rock. The same goes with stadium drum kits and electric bass. Essentially, you're already in a soundscape that's very familiar and has a lot of established legendary material recorded using those instruments. "
Guitar
You
Same
" Bands in the Nineties seem to forget the entertainment aspect of rock music. "
Music
Entertainment
Rock
" Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music. "
Live
Believe
Influence
" Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it. "
Life
Small
Me
" Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world. "
Empathy
Hope
People
" For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling. "
First Time
Time
Energy
" I always go for walks in the countryside. "
Always
Countryside
Go
" I can understand why people are bad. "
People
Understand
Why
" I don't think our records contain obvious humour. We're not cracking gags. "
Obvious
Think
Records
" I don't totally buy or believe the paradigm that's constantly presented to us and the financial news is obsessed with, which is growth. There seems to be this paradigm which is: There has to be growth. I'm watching it and thinking, am I the only one who recognises this is a small planet isolated in a gigantic universe? Where are we growing to? "
Thinking
Growth
Financial
" I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place. "
Think
Better
World
" I experienced the sharp end of a tough time, living with a single parent, my mum, and she was really struggling to get a job. These are the things that form your views in life. They are established when you are growing up and being raised. That stuff doesn't really go away; that stays with you. "
Job
Growing Up
Life
" I have been lucky to experience a lot of the spoils that can happen in a rock band. But being with the three guys in this band from such a young age, we aren't going to let any of the spoils change us. "
Rock
Age
Change
" I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement. "
Concentration
Being
Family
" I love Tom Waits because he's an artist who makes me not afraid to get old, and that's rare. I think it's a rare kind of thing to have that level of wisdom. And his lyrics are just astounding; everything in life is inside his lyrics. "
Wisdom
Artist
Life
" I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly. "
Nature
Things
Songwriter
" I never understood bands who were only influenced by a narrow era of, say, five years of music. "
Only
Say
Years
" In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose. "
Purpose
Long
Intelligence
" In the U.S., the conspiracy theory subculture has been hijacked by the Right to try to take down people like Obama and put forward rightwing libertarianism. "
Conspiracy
Down
Forward
" Introverts probably have a higher degree of sensitivity to outside stimulus and tend to back off. In your quiet shyness as a child, you end up with an accumulation of thoughts and ideas, building up big, imaginative worlds. You have to get it all out somehow, so it goes into your work. "
Child
You
Ideas
" I think that's what a lot of writers do, create a totally fantastical scenario that is a reflection of something else going on in their life. "
Think
Reflection
Life
" I think we have a lot in common with classical composers of the 19th century, although I'm not claiming to have their intelligence. They wanted to create a musical explosion, to blow the crowd away. "
Away
Think
Intelligence
" I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!' "
Death
Life
Sorrow
" I used to go and see bands like the Orb and Orbital every time they came down, and I've seen Aphex Twin a couple of times. I was really into all that stuff, but it didn't speak to me. "
Down
Go
Me
" I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done. "
Thinking
Freedom
Life
" I've spent important times of my life in Spain and Greece, and various deep things happened there - falling in love, stuff like that. "
Important
Love
Deep
" I was going out dancing in clubs around New York, and that helped create 'Supermassive Black Hole.' Franz Ferdinand would have done it very well with that dance-type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar, and I've always wanted to find that. "
Dancing
Black
Create
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