[Part1]

Colin: "The Pablo Honey thing comes from this sort of comedy wind-up tape done by an American, and he sort of rings people up pretending to be... adopting characters and just winds them up, like he rings up some redneck in Kansas and tells them that Kansas is going to change their name...

Thom: "(laughs)

Colin: "He's got ten thousand signatures to change the name of Kansas to New Saigon, and he just needs his signature and his two Vietnamese children are going to come that he's adopted the next day, and so he gets like this redneck going “we don't want no... ”

Thom: "And Pablo Honey was taken from this guy ringing up some strange man and saying “Pablo, come home”

Colin: "“Come home to Florida”

[Part 2]

Thom: "We spent ages and ages on arrangements

Colin: "Yeah

Thom: "We let our songs sort of... well, for want of a better word, “ferment”

Colin: "(laughs)

Thom: "For a while

Colin: "Yeah, it takes ages to be able to see where it's... and to actually get... you have to try all the other... all the other things first, and...

Thom: "It can be very frustrating

Colin: "And it's just sometimes... I don't know whether you can say we've just been lucky so far, but I think it's more like... it's more like just going through it every time. Sometimes something just like fits and makes sense, and you know immediately and then that's it

[Part 3]

Thom: "Well, I wouldn't say that the audience are in any way dictating the way we arrange or write stuff, because that's equally dangerous ground, if not more so, because you're then formularising what you're doing, and then you're actually working with their expectations. The most exciting thing about a live band, you know, the key word is, you know, “unexpected”. It's got to be a shock, you know, there has to be shocks, but those shocks don't have to be like loud and quiet...

Colin: "Yeah

Thom: "Those shocks can be a lyric, or like something that Phil's playing on the snare drum or something like that, you know, that to me is shock, and that, you know, that I see when I see Sonic Youth, like you know, there's shocks every thirty seconds (laughs). The live thing doesn't dictate us, but at the same time it's all part of that process of trying to do something that we haven't done before and trying to do, you know, the unexpected thing all the time