“The experience of living there is absolutely tied in with the sound, because there’s a lot of pressure and it’s an intense place to live. Living there, being in a band, it’s not like you can go to your suburban buddy’s basement and play for free.�
Paul Banks

It’s so funny because there was this attitude of ‘We love NY’ and now it’s ‘We hate NY’ because the media spread the love too far and wide, and it shut everything down, and now they’re going to spit it back out.�
Sam Fogarino

“If things happened early on, the band would have combusted. We so obviously needed time to become comfortable as musicians with each other. I’m glad that we had that time.�
The recent Interpol EP was released by Matador, and aside from a Chemikal Underground EP released a while back, will be the major piece of evidence to be used in judgement on the band. And so far, they’ve been unfairly compared to the likes of Joy Division by most of the music press.
Paul Banks

“Music’s something we all have to do on an individual basis, and then as a group we really have these people we want to do it with. I came to the realisation a long time ago that if I didn’t face it, I’d regret it for the rest of my life. When I didn’t have a band, I was depressed and frustrated, in New York – a city full of musicians, it’s just hard to click with people.�
Daniel Kessler

“I’ve always been around music, it was like a value. Kids didn’t like music the same way as me. It’s something I had to do or I’d be lying to myself. One of those realisations, you have to be true to yourself.�
Daniel Kessler