I think one of the biggest things that's changed in terms of the rapport with the crowd is that now crowds come to hear our songs. We're getting closer and closer to an artist performance.

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.

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

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.

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.