120 Quotes by James Murphy

I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.

The more you are like me, the less interested in my band you are.

I understand that if someone's going to make me his idea of cool, I can't control that.

LCD is a band about a band writing music about writing music.

LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.

I had friends who were jocks or whatever... Then, around 12 or 13, kids get cliquish and cruel, and that disgusted me. It seemed a reprehensible use of one's arbitrary social status. So I got really aggressive about it and became more of a weird kid.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

I spent a good amount of time with David Bowie, and I was talking about getting the band back together. He said, 'Does it make you uncomfortable?' I said 'Yeah,', and he said, 'Good. It should. You should be uncomfortable.'