A few guys will get up there with turntables as purists, to play vinyl or whatever.

It's always important to me to play something other DJs aren't playing.

That's what a DJ is at the end of the day - someone who leads where the music goes. The only thing that's changed is that in America, people have woken up in the last few years and realized it.

I love disco and we sample it a lot for Duck Sauce. For me, that sound is kind of a new manifestation.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard.

There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

Only a writer can ride a time machine and change the future when he is not there.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

Managers focus on short-term goals versus opportunities or challenges coming down the road.

I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.

The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.