DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic'… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised by how optimistic and open sometimes people who are very successful are. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I don't write off silly pop people at all, because you never know where they're coming from. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply. — James Murphy Copy Share Image
My gut instincts are strong, but they're not always accessible to me, which is why I like DJing, because you don't have time, and… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
I was always just blown away by David Bowie and how mannered the guy was willing to be. It was so far from what… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
