I kind of feel like songs can be easily miscommunicated, songs can mean that you’re cool just as a singer. Songs can mean that you’re talented and it can be about you. Or songs can just be very vague lyrics that can be translated for anybody. Like “That’s our song with me and my girlfriend”. I try to encode as much specificity as I can like in a zip file so it can go through a process of being a band that someone has a preconceived impression about or sees live, and it gets to you and hopefully you can unpack it get as close to the original meaning as possible. And that can only be done through a sort of type of linguistic simplicity or specificity and musical specificity to separate it from other sounding records. - James Murphy, in an interview for Clash mag, June 2010