I Heard The Bloc Party Record Japan

It's Better For The Listener To Interpret Their Own Meanings To The Music.

I Don't Have A Special Place Or Ritual For Writing Songs, Basically I Write Songs Whenever An Idea Hits Me, In My Hotel Room, On The Road, In The Plane.

To Maintain A Consistency When People Come To See The Band Takes A Lot Of Work; It Takes A Lot Of Discipline. I Go To The Studio Every Day And Sing And Play. I Never Did That When I Was, Like, 30. I'd Probably Have A Drink And Walk On - And See What Comes Out. But Now If There's Ten Albums' Worth Of Material People Are Coming To Hear Some Of, And They've Paid Money For A Ticket, You Become A Different Person When You Go On And You Want To Give The Best Show You Can. You Want To Be Better At What You Do.

Every Song I've Written, It's About What I've Gone Through, Good Or Bad. It Kind Of Comes Out Of Me, And I'm Grateful For That. I've Got Friends Who Are Back Home Who've Got No Way To Express That, And They're Kind Of In A Different Position In Life. It's Alarming To Me That I've Written Something On My Bedroom Floor When I Was 19 Or Something, And Then There's 50,000 People That Know The Words, And They've Got A Similar Feeling. If You Thought About It Too Much, Your Head Would Blow Up.

If You Repeat What You Did In The Last Tour, The Likelihood Is It's Not Gonna Be Successful Twice. People Are Nostalgic About A Particular Record, Because It's About The Time When They Were Listening To That Record. But If You Do It Again, They're Like, I'm Not That Guy Anymore.