We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The… — James Murphy Band Copy Share Image
Anything that's resolvable is boring, musically. And if it's too chaotic, you don't feel tension; it's chaos. — James Murphy Anything Copy Share Image
I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism… — James Murphy Cool Copy Share Image
There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie. — James Murphy Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'm kind of stunned by hip-hop and R&B's embrace of what is essentially early-to-mid-Nineties Euro pop. — James Murphy Embrace Copy Share Image
