I was talking to another musician, |
I'm going to make somebody love me, |
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity. |
It would be great to get the Christmas number one. I suppose we could even write something special for Christmas. I think Santa Loves Franz Ferdinand sounds pretty good. |
It's based on a number of different characters who are pretty enigmatic in their own right, |
It's easy to get discouraged sometimes when you listen to American rock radio because everything is so bland, so self-referential, |
It's not a case of reinventing yourself, it's a case of trying to be adventurous, |
Many people have this perception of us being this arty band, |
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own. |
Oh no, it's nothing like that. |
Outsiders. He had this weird contraption of a drum kit where he was playing half with a tambourine in one hand and the floor tom between his legs -- just to experiment with different ways of setting up. |
The Beatles were huge for me, |
The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.' |
The speaker is not always the author. [In 'Michael'] I was writing about an erotic situation between two male friends. It didn't strike me as that odd. It seemed like a good subject for a song. |
This album has a lot more of the energy we have as a live band, ... The playing is intuitive, natural, easy. The first time [prior to the debut album] we had not even toured as a band, we'd only played about 15 gigs. |